Ontario · Registered charity
OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY FOR STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURE
OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY FOR STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURE (Ontario) receives grants from 33 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,238,440 to it, the largest being THE BROTHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS OF ONTARIO (C$383,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY FOR STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,019 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,019 teaching institutions 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.
- Ottawa Valley Community Foundationlocal
- History & Heroes Foundationportfolio match
- Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Societyportfolio 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 0% · 2018 0% · 2020 6% · 2021 19% · 2022 5% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY FOR STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (11% 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 narrowed from 17 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose C$109k → C$118k.
From the CRA filings of OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY FOR STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY FOR STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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 OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY FOR STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 20% · 2019 56% · 2020 71% · 2021 51% · 2022 27% · 2023 26% — 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 OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY FOR STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
67% of OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY FOR STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURE'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$9k 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. Your 33 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Ottawa Valley Community FoundationlocalON · funds 20 organizations near you
- History & Heroes Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northmount Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Priscilla and Stanford Reid Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scarboro Foreign Mission Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Enactus Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charitable Trust of the Canadian Federation of University Women Aurora/Newmarket Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leonard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Deep River and District Community FoundationlocalON · funds 14 organizations near you
- St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church BonnecherelocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- St. Francis Valley Healthcare FoundationlocalON · funds 3 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 OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY FOR STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURE reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 0% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY FOR STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURE
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.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY FOR STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURE?
- OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY FOR STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURE (Ontario) receives grants from 33 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,238,440 to it, the largest being THE BROTHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS OF ONTARIO (C$383,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY FOR STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURE have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 33 organizations giving C$1,238,440 in grants to OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY FOR STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURE, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY FOR STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURE?
- THE BROTHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS OF ONTARIO is the largest funder on record, with C$383,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OUR LADY SEAT OF WISDOM ACADEMY FOR STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN CULTURE 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 33 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