Ontario · Registered charity
PETERBOROUGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
PETERBOROUGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Ontario) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$341,393 to it, the largest being LINK CHARITY CANADA INC (C$105,800). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PETERBOROUGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$341k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,067 arts nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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 Anthony and Virginia Ambler Family Foundationlocal
- Good Foundation Inc.portfolio match
- The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundationportfolio 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 7% · 2018 14% · 2019 11% · 2020 11% · 2021 32% · 2022 18% · 2023 9% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of PETERBOROUGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell C$57k → C$44k.
From the CRA filings of PETERBOROUGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’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
PETERBOROUGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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 PETERBOROUGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 34% · 2019 38% · 2020 62% · 2021 29% · 2022 29% · 2023 41% — 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.
How long its funders stay
62% of PETERBOROUGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
97% of PETERBOROUGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'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$37k 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 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Anthony and Virginia Ambler Family FoundationlocalON · funds 7 organizations near you
- Good Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deux Mille Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Incite Foundation for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emmanuel United ChurchlocalON · funds 10 organizations near you
- Westdale United ChurchlocalON · funds 6 organizations near you
- Northminster United ChurchlocalON · funds 8 organizations near you
- Soroptimist International of Peterborough TrustlocalON · funds 5 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 PETERBOROUGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 19% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like PETERBOROUGH 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 Ontario
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds PETERBOROUGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- PETERBOROUGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Ontario) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$341,393 to it, the largest being LINK CHARITY CANADA INC (C$105,800). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PETERBOROUGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 18 organizations giving C$341,393 in grants to PETERBOROUGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PETERBOROUGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA?
- LINK CHARITY CANADA INC is the largest funder on record, with C$105,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PETERBOROUGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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 18 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