Ontario · Registered charity
SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH
SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH (Ontario) receives grants from 92 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$6,530,181 to it, the largest being THE SLAIGHT FAMILY FOUNDATION (C$698,700). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$2.0M
- Funders on record
- 92
- Grants received
- C$6.5M
- Net assets
- C$-703931
What Sketch Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth does
Ongoing programs
Sketch working arts (sketch) engages diverse youth aged 16-29 in toronto who are navigating poverty living homeless or otherwise on the margins in the following activities: 1. Discover activities that engage youth facing multiple barriers including homelessness marginalization poverty hunger isolation mental and physical adversities. These activities involve providing healthy meals nutritional awareness and emotional support. This also includes referrals to resources in health care housing and other social supports. 2. Develop activities involve arts exploration technical development production and collaboration. Services are offered in rotating 10- week seasons that run in 5 blocks of program 3 days per week year-round and offer youth a wide spectrum of arts practice resulting in constructive experiences adn enhanced transferrable and employable skills. 3. Launch activities focus on youth receiving training and assuming paid leadership roles in co-conducting programs at sketch and in the community; augmenting their incomes through other paid engagements commissions and vending opportunities through other paid engagements commissions and vending opportunities…
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from C$1.7M to C$4.8M (+179%).
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 46% · 2018 56% · 2019 58% · 2020 68% · 2021 54% · 2022 42% · 2023 52% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (4% 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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose C$470k → C$1.1M.
From the CRA filings of SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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
SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 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 SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 17% · 2019 20% · 2020 26% · 2021 15% · 2022 17% · 2023 14% — 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
41% of SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
83% of SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH'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$362k 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.
Against its field
SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH's funding base is broadening — from 30 funders to 34 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,132 community resource nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government revenue SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 35% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH?
- SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH (Ontario) receives grants from 92 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$6,530,181 to it, the largest being THE SLAIGHT FAMILY FOUNDATION (C$698,700). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 92 organizations giving C$6,530,181 in grants to SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH?
- THE SLAIGHT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$698,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SKETCH WORKING ARTS FOR STREET INVOLVED AND HOMELESS YOUTH 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 92 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register