Ontario · Registered charity
Ottawa Live Arts Community (OLAC)
Ottawa Live Arts Community (OLAC) (Ontario) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$82,536 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$34,878). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Ottawa Live Arts Community (OLAC)'s funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 781 education in the arts nonprofits under $100k, 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 Ottawa Hospital Foundationlocal
- The William and Jean Teron Foundationportfolio match
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioportfolio match
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 23% · 2018 20% · 2019 28% · 2020 29% · 2021 66% · 2022 69% · 2023 19% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of Ottawa Live Arts Community (OLAC)’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (30% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose C$772 → C$21k.
From the CRA filings of Ottawa Live Arts Community (OLAC)’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
Ottawa Live Arts Community (OLAC) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 86%; 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 Ottawa Live Arts Community (OLAC).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 53% · 2020 67% · 2021 66% · 2022 62% · 2023 62% — 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
85% of Ottawa Live Arts Community (OLAC)'s grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$28k 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.
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.
- The Ottawa Hospital FoundationlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- The William and Jean Teron Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kiwanis Club of Rideau (Ottawa) Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trinity Development Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewitt Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Incite Foundation for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Clematis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Judy and Wilmot Matthews 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.
Government revenue Ottawa Live Arts Community (OLAC) reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 22% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Ottawa Live Arts Community (OLAC)
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Ottawa Live Arts Community (OLAC)?
- Ottawa Live Arts Community (OLAC) (Ontario) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$82,536 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$34,878). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ottawa Live Arts Community (OLAC) have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$82,536 in grants to Ottawa Live Arts Community (OLAC), 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ottawa Live Arts Community (OLAC)?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$34,878 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ottawa Live Arts Community (OLAC) 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 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register