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Newfoundland and Labrador · Registered charity

NFLD & LABRADOR ARTS COUNCIL

NFLD & LABRADOR ARTS COUNCIL (Newfoundland and Labrador) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$176,660 to it, the largest being BenefAction Foundation (C$100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
C$6.2M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
C$177k
Net assets
C$848k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Nfld & Labrador Arts Council does

Ongoing programs

The nlac's main activity is to disburse the provincial government's funding allocation to professional artists art organizations community groups and schools throughout newfoundland and labrador. These include grants relating to personal projects sustaining organizations operating funds professional artist travel and arts in education programs.

As stated on its FY2024 T3010.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$2.4M) Expenses 100 (C$2.4M) Net assets 100 (C$89k)2018 Revenue 94 (C$2.2M) Expenses 94 (C$2.2M) Net assets 77 (C$69k)2019 Revenue 96 (C$2.3M) Expenses 94 (C$2.2M) Net assets 168 (C$149k)2020 Revenue 143 (C$3.4M) Expenses 145 (C$3.4M) Net assets 156 (C$139k)2021 Revenue 3 (C$70k) Expenses 154 (C$3.6M) Net assets 846 (C$752k)2022 Revenue 222 (C$5.3M) Expenses 210 (C$4.9M) Net assets 1208 (C$1.1M)2023 Revenue 225 (C$5.3M) Expenses 236 (C$5.6M) Net assets 970 (C$862k)2024 Revenue 261 (C$6.2M) Expenses 261 (C$6.1M) Net assets 953 (C$848k)
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Revenue (261)Expenses (261)Net assets (953)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from C$1.3M to C$2.5M (+102%).

C$332k
C$178k
C$279k
C$253k
C$1.1M
C$1.4M
C$1.3M
C$2.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 90% · 2018 95% · 2019 94% · 2020 92% · 2021 5943% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of NFLD & LABRADOR ARTS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (12% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 111 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$24k
’17
C$23k
’18
C$65k
’19
−C$30k
’20
−C$3.6M
’21
C$347k
’22
−C$211k
’23
C$46k
’24
4.5
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

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Listed61088991211
Joined·+5+0+1+8+1+3+0
No longer listed·1217101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose C$13k → C$66k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$100k
Toronto Foundationunclassified
C$73k
C$335
C$28
funders
2
1
1
2
1
1
2
2

From the CRA filings of NFLD & LABRADOR ARTS COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

NFLD & LABRADOR ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 NFLD & LABRADOR ARTS COUNCIL.

57%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 76% — 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.

Where its funders are

NFLD & LABRADOR ARTS COUNCIL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Newfoundland and Labrador, across 2 regions in all.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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Newfoundland and Labrador out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$3k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NFLD & LABRADOR ARTS COUNCIL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 119 education in the arts nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · above the median
Months of reserve4.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 119 education in the arts nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government revenue NFLD & LABRADOR ARTS COUNCIL reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$6.0M
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  • 97% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like NFLD & LABRADOR ARTS COUNCIL

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 Newfoundland and Labrador

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds NFLD & LABRADOR ARTS COUNCIL?
NFLD & LABRADOR ARTS COUNCIL (Newfoundland and Labrador) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$176,660 to it, the largest being BenefAction Foundation (C$100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NFLD & LABRADOR ARTS COUNCIL have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$176,660 in grants to NFLD & LABRADOR ARTS COUNCIL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NFLD & LABRADOR ARTS COUNCIL?
BenefAction 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 NFLD & LABRADOR ARTS COUNCIL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register