Quebec · Registered charity
ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL/MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL/MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Quebec) receives grants from 86 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$36,415,435 to it, the largest being Fondation de l'Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (C$28,461,634). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL/MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's funding base is broadening — from 42 funders to 44 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 44 arts 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.
- Fondation Pierre Desmarais Belvederelocalportfolio match
- Fondation LCI Éducation / LCI Education Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Altru Foundation Inc.shared funders
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 36% · 2018 36% · 2019 37% · 2020 51% · 2021 69% · 2022 58% · 2023 40% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL/MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 42 funders to 44 funders, grant income rose C$2.7M → C$6.3M.
From the CRA filings of ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL/MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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
ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL/MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL/MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 64% · 2019 67% · 2020 73% · 2021 66% · 2022 84% · 2023 88% — 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
54% of ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL/MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
98% of ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL/MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's grant income comes from Quebec funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$618k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions 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.
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 86 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Fondation Pierre Desmarais Belvederelocalportfolio matchQC · funds 5 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Fondation LCI Éducation / LCI Education Foundationlocalportfolio matchQC · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Altru Foundation Inc.shared fundersQC · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- The Molson Foundation/Fondation Molsonshared funderslocalQC · backs 96 organizations that share your funders · funds 12 organizations near you
- Fondation Bourbeauportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fondation Famille le Blancportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The George Hogg Family Foundationshared fundersQC · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Corporation Du Seminaire de St-Germain de Rimouskiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Collège Lasalle / Lasalle Collegeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Circuit-EstlocalQC · funds 4 organizations near you
- Federation Cjashared fundersQC · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- Fondation Daniel LamarrelocalQC · funds 7 organizations near you
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 ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL/MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 40% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL/MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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 Quebec
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Questions and answers
- Who funds ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL/MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL/MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Quebec) receives grants from 86 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$36,415,435 to it, the largest being Fondation de l'Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (C$28,461,634). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL/MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 86 organizations giving C$36,415,435 in grants to ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL/MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL/MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- Fondation de l'Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal is the largest funder on record, with C$28,461,634 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTREAL/MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Quebec.
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 86 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