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OTTAWA SCHOOL OF ART ECOLE D'ART D'OTTAWA

OTTAWA SCHOOL OF ART ECOLE D'ART D'OTTAWA (Ontario) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$333,146 to it, the largest being Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa (C$163,776). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

C$2.3M
Revenue FY2024
13
Funders on record
C$333k
Grants received
C$156k
Net assets
10/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

OTTAWA SCHOOL OF ART ECOLE D'ART D'OTTAWA's revenue grew 22% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 380 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$1.8M) Expenses 100 (C$1.9M) Net assets -30 (C$-13407)2018 Revenue 104 (C$1.9M) Expenses 103 (C$1.9M) Net assets 100 (C$45k)2019 Revenue 112 (C$2.1M) Expenses 106 (C$2.0M) Net assets 289 (C$130k)2020 Revenue 91 (C$1.7M) Expenses 90 (C$1.7M) Net assets 343 (C$154k)2021 Revenue 86 (C$1.6M) Expenses 87 (C$1.6M) Net assets 361 (C$162k)2022 Revenue 100 (C$1.8M) Expenses 102 (C$1.9M) Net assets 495 (C$222k)2023 Revenue 116 (C$2.1M) Expenses 117 (C$2.2M) Net assets 363 (C$163k)2024 Revenue 122 (C$2.3M) Expenses 125 (C$2.3M) Net assets 347 (C$156k)
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Revenue (122)Expenses (125)Net assets (347)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 27% · 2018 26% · 2019 25% · 2020 43% · 2021 48% · 2022 27% · 2023 24% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of OTTAWA SCHOOL OF ART ECOLE D'ART D'OTTAWA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (10% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 361 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$7k
’17
C$9k
’18
C$92k
’19
C$22k
’20
−C$19k
’21
−C$42k
’22
−C$36k
’23
−C$61k
’24
2.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income rose C$38k → C$62k.

From the CRA filings of OTTAWA SCHOOL OF ART ECOLE D'ART D'OTTAWA’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 SCHOOL OF ART ECOLE D'ART D'OTTAWA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 69%; 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 SCHOOL OF ART ECOLE D'ART D'OTTAWA.

49%
largest funder
69%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 79% · 2019 58% · 2020 31% · 2021 75% · 2022 73% · 2023 57% — 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

67% of OTTAWA SCHOOL OF ART ECOLE D'ART D'OTTAWA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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

56% of OTTAWA SCHOOL OF ART ECOLE D'ART D'OTTAWA'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$147k that is directly attributable, 71% 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$186k 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 13 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 OTTAWA SCHOOL OF ART ECOLE D'ART D'OTTAWA reports

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

FY2024C$509k
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  • 23% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like OTTAWA SCHOOL OF ART ECOLE D'ART D'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.

Governance

13
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds OTTAWA SCHOOL OF ART ECOLE D'ART D'OTTAWA?
OTTAWA SCHOOL OF ART ECOLE D'ART D'OTTAWA (Ontario) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$333,146 to it, the largest being Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa (C$163,776). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does OTTAWA SCHOOL OF ART ECOLE D'ART D'OTTAWA have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 13 organizations giving C$333,146 in grants to OTTAWA SCHOOL OF ART ECOLE D'ART D'OTTAWA, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OTTAWA SCHOOL OF ART ECOLE D'ART D'OTTAWA?
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa is the largest funder on record, with C$163,776 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OTTAWA SCHOOL OF ART ECOLE D'ART D'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 13 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