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OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD

OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD (Ontario) receives grants from 9 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$536,310 to it, the largest being OAKVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$348,571). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

C$13M
Revenue FY2024
9
Funders on record
C$536k
Grants received
C$3.8M
Net assets
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD has grown faster than half of the 95 public amenities nonprofits its size.

Revenue growth (annualized)5% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 95 public amenities nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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$9.4M) Expenses 100 (C$9.0M) Net assets 100 (C$3.4M)2018 Revenue 105 (C$9.9M) Expenses 114 (C$10M) Net assets 88 (C$3.0M)2019 Revenue 116 (C$11M) Expenses 113 (C$10M) Net assets 119 (C$4.1M)2020 Revenue 112 (C$11M) Expenses 103 (C$9.3M) Net assets 146 (C$5.0M)2021 Revenue 115 (C$11M) Expenses 115 (C$10M) Net assets 106 (C$3.6M)2022 Revenue 125 (C$12M) Expenses 124 (C$11M) Net assets 107 (C$3.7M)2023 Revenue 131 (C$12M) Expenses 132 (C$12M) Net assets 110 (C$3.8M)2024 Revenue 136 (C$13M) Net assets 112 (C$3.8M)
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Revenue (136)Expenses (132)Net assets (112)Peer revenue range

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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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 96% · 2018 97% · 2019 97% · 2020 98% · 2021 97% · 2022 96% · 2023 96% · 2024 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (3% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 89 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

C$377k
’17
−C$424k
’18
C$717k
’19
C$1.2M
’20
C$391k
’21
C$532k
’22
C$381k
’23
’24
0.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose C$52k → C$151k.

From the CRA filings of OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD’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

OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 90%; 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 OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD.

65%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 77% · 2019 36% · 2020 83% · 2021 41% · 2022 65% · 2023 87% — growing more concentrated.

“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

83% of OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

74% of OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$139k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Ontario funders.

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

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Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$397k 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.

03Its place in the field

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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government revenue OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD reports

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

FY2024C$12M
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  • 96% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD

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

04Profile & governance

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

Governance

9
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD?
OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD (Ontario) receives grants from 9 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$536,310 to it, the largest being OAKVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$348,571). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 9 organizations giving C$536,310 in grants to OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD?
OAKVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$348,571 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.

Play a game about who funds Oakville Public Library Board →

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 9 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