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OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa

OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa (Ontario) receives grants from 56 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,384,796 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$1,128,235). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$1.2M
Revenue FY2024
56
Funders on record
C$3.4M
Grants received
C$481k
Net assets
35/56 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 65%

Against its field

OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 119 education in the arts nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 119 education in the arts nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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$574k) Expenses 100 (C$504k) Net assets 100 (C$520k)2018 Revenue 111 (C$638k) Expenses 114 (C$577k) Net assets 62 (C$321k)2019 Revenue 120 (C$690k) Expenses 126 (C$635k) Net assets 76 (C$395k)2020 Revenue 144 (C$829k) Expenses 138 (C$697k) Net assets 85 (C$441k)2021 Revenue 157 (C$904k) Expenses 135 (C$682k) Net assets 105 (C$547k)2022 Revenue 167 (C$956k) Expenses 171 (C$861k) Net assets 127 (C$660k)2023 Revenue 155 (C$888k) Expenses 213 (C$1.1M) Net assets 60 (C$313k)2024 Revenue 214 (C$1.2M) Expenses 213 (C$1.1M) Net assets 92 (C$481k)
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Revenue (214)Expenses (213)Net assets (92)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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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 25% · 2018 19% · 2019 23% · 2020 19% · 2021 16% · 2022 19% · 2023 22% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$70k
’17
C$62k
’18
C$55k
’19
C$132k
’20
C$221k
’21
C$96k
’22
−C$185k
’23
C$155k
’24
4.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose C$211k → C$574k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$1.1M
C$262k
C$200k
C$75k
C$34k
C$25k
C$14k
C$14k
C$10k
funders
16
20
23
23
21
25
24
29

From the CRA filings of OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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

OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa.

33%
largest funder
51%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 48% · 2019 36% · 2020 32% · 2021 36% · 2022 34% · 2023 26% — broadly stable.

“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

43% of OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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

79% of OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$304k 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 56 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 OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa reports

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

FY2024C$228k
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  • 18% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa

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.

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 19%Fundraising 15%

Governance

12
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa?
OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa (Ontario) receives grants from 56 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,384,796 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$1,128,235). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 56 organizations giving C$3,384,796 in grants to OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa?
CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$1,128,235 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 56 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