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SCARBOROUGH PLAYERS

SCARBOROUGH PLAYERS (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$19,156 to it, the largest being PLAYHOUSE 66 (C$12,612). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$185k
Revenue FY2024
4
Funders on record
C$19k
Grants received
C$257k
Net assets
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%

Against its field

SCARBOROUGH PLAYERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 689 education in the arts nonprofits its size.

Operating margin34% · top quartile
Months of reserve25.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

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.

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$135k) Expenses 100 (C$138k) Net assets 100 (C$99k)2018 Revenue 127 (C$172k) Expenses 94 (C$129k) Net assets 147 (C$146k)2019 Revenue 102 (C$138k) Expenses 103 (C$143k) Net assets 143 (C$141k)2020 Revenue 87 (C$117k) Expenses 92 (C$127k) Net assets 133 (C$132k)2021 Revenue 47 (C$64k) Expenses 15 (C$21k) Net assets 176 (C$174k)2022 Revenue 53 (C$72k) Expenses 44 (C$61k) Net assets 187 (C$185k)2023 Revenue 81 (C$109k) Expenses 72 (C$100k) Net assets 196 (C$194k)2024 Revenue 137 (C$185k) Expenses 88 (C$122k) Net assets 259 (C$257k)
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Revenue (137)Expenses (88)Net assets (259)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 33% · 2022 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

3% of SCARBOROUGH PLAYERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 660 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$3k
’17
C$42k
’18
−C$4k
’19
−C$10k
’20
C$43k
’21
C$11k
’22
C$9k
’23
C$63k
’24
25
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose C$323 → C$1k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Playhouse 66unclassified
C$13k
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$1k
funders
2
3
2
2
3

From the CRA filings of SCARBOROUGH PLAYERS’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

SCARBOROUGH PLAYERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 SCARBOROUGH PLAYERS.

66%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 52% · 2021 93% · 2022 60% · 2023 82% — 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.

Where its funders are

74% of SCARBOROUGH PLAYERS's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

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 SCARBOROUGH PLAYERS reports

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

FY2022C$10k
21
22
  • 14% of FY2022 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like SCARBOROUGH PLAYERS

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

Scarborough Theatre Guild90%Peterborough Theatre Guild76%Scarborough Music Theatre Inc75%Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra75%Sudbury Theatre Centre74%Northumberland Players73%St. Lawrence Shakespeare Theatrical Company72%The Community Players of New Hamburg72%

Nationally

Scarborough Theatre Guild90%Peterborough Theatre Guild76%Scarborough Music Theatre Inc75%Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra75%Sudbury Theatre Centre74%Northumberland Players73%Performers' Theatre Company Inc.73%Dartmouth Players Society73%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Governance

12
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds SCARBOROUGH PLAYERS?
SCARBOROUGH PLAYERS (Ontario) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$19,156 to it, the largest being PLAYHOUSE 66 (C$12,612). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SCARBOROUGH PLAYERS have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$19,156 in grants to SCARBOROUGH PLAYERS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SCARBOROUGH PLAYERS?
PLAYHOUSE 66 is the largest funder on record, with C$12,612 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SCARBOROUGH PLAYERS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.

Play a game about who funds Scarborough Players →

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 4 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