Ontario · Registered charity
QUEST ART SCHOOL + GALLERY
QUEST ART SCHOOL + GALLERY (Ontario) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$201,027 to it, the largest being RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION (C$90,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
QUEST ART SCHOOL + GALLERY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 689 education in the arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 689 education in the 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 Weber Foundationlocal
- Partners in Artportfolio match
- Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Inc.portfolio 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 19% · 2018 17% · 2019 5% · 2020 14% · 2021 55% · 2022 80% · 2023 48% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of QUEST ART SCHOOL + GALLERY’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. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell C$14k → C$13k.
From the CRA filings of QUEST ART SCHOOL + GALLERY’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
QUEST ART SCHOOL + GALLERY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% 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 QUEST ART SCHOOL + GALLERY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 80% · 2019 86% · 2020 54% · 2021 85% · 2022 80% · 2023 57% — broadly stable.
“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
70% of QUEST ART SCHOOL + GALLERY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
84% of QUEST ART SCHOOL + GALLERY'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$13k 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 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Weber FoundationlocalON · funds 9 organizations near you
- Partners in Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Kootenay Regional Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Audain Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Manitoba Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rozsa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stonefields Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig 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 QUEST ART SCHOOL + GALLERY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 21% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like QUEST ART SCHOOL + GALLERY
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds QUEST ART SCHOOL + GALLERY?
- QUEST ART SCHOOL + GALLERY (Ontario) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$201,027 to it, the largest being RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION (C$90,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does QUEST ART SCHOOL + GALLERY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 11 organizations giving C$201,027 in grants to QUEST ART SCHOOL + GALLERY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of QUEST ART SCHOOL + GALLERY?
- RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like QUEST ART SCHOOL + GALLERY 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 11 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