Ontario · Registered charity
Making Art Making Change
Making Art Making Change (Ontario) receives grants from 12 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$299,255 to it, the largest being THE H. JOHN MCDONALD FOUNDATION (C$100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Making Art Making Change runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 689 education in the arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 689 education in the arts nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioshared fundersportfolio match
- The K. M. Hunter Charitableshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
95% of Making Art Making Change’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose C$375 → C$113k.
From the CRA filings of Making Art Making Change’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Making Art Making Change leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Making Art Making Change.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 58% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of Making Art Making Change's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of Making Art Making Change's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 82 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 59 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The K. M. Hunter Charitableshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Leah and Paul Atkinson Family FoundationlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Partners in Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Inspirit Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lindy Green Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Audain Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Michael Young Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewis Cohen Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lawrence Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Making Art Making Change
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ontario
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Making Art Making Change?
- Making Art Making Change (Ontario) receives grants from 12 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$299,255 to it, the largest being THE H. JOHN MCDONALD FOUNDATION (C$100,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Making Art Making Change have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 12 organizations giving C$299,255 in grants to Making Art Making Change, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Making Art Making Change?
- THE H. JOHN MCDONALD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Making Art Making Change find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 12 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register