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THE JOE CHITHALEN MEMORIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT LENDING LIBRARY

THE JOE CHITHALEN MEMORIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT LENDING LIBRARY (Ontario) receives grants from 15 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$169,635 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR KINGSTON & AREA (C$54,997). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

C$228k
Revenue FY2024
15
Funders on record
C$170k
Grants received
C$315k
Net assets
13/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%

Against its field

THE JOE CHITHALEN MEMORIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT LENDING LIBRARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 689 education in the arts nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above 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$113k) Expenses 100 (C$110k) Net assets 100 (C$45k)2018 Revenue 146 (C$164k) Expenses 111 (C$121k) Net assets 196 (C$88k)2019 Revenue 159 (C$179k) Expenses 111 (C$121k) Net assets 325 (C$146k)2020 Revenue 103 (C$116k) Expenses 95 (C$104k) Net assets 351 (C$157k)2021 Revenue 107 (C$120k) Expenses 101 (C$111k) Net assets 373 (C$167k)2022 Revenue 172 (C$193k) Expenses 129 (C$141k) Net assets 489 (C$219k)2023 Revenue 184 (C$207k) Expenses 143 (C$157k)2024 Revenue 203 (C$228k) Expenses 167 (C$182k) Net assets 704 (C$315k)
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Revenue (203)Expenses (167)Net assets (704)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.

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2018
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2020
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 27% · 2021 20% · 2022 2% · 2023 6% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

63% of THE JOE CHITHALEN MEMORIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT LENDING LIBRARY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$3k
’17
C$43k
’18
C$58k
’19
C$11k
’20
C$10k
’21
C$52k
’22
C$50k
’23
C$46k
’24
10
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose C$4k → C$22k.

From the CRA filings of THE JOE CHITHALEN MEMORIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT LENDING LIBRARY’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

THE JOE CHITHALEN MEMORIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT LENDING LIBRARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 68%; 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 THE JOE CHITHALEN MEMORIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT LENDING LIBRARY.

32%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 45% · 2019 52% · 2020 58% · 2021 43% · 2022 66% · 2023 28% — 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

64% of THE JOE CHITHALEN MEMORIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT LENDING LIBRARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 87% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

56% of THE JOE CHITHALEN MEMORIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT LENDING LIBRARY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$75k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Ontario funders.

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

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’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$95k 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.

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. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 THE JOE CHITHALEN MEMORIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT LENDING LIBRARY reports

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

FY2024C$14k
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  • 6% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like THE JOE CHITHALEN MEMORIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT LENDING LIBRARY

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 3%Fundraising 2%

Governance

15
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds THE JOE CHITHALEN MEMORIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT LENDING LIBRARY?
THE JOE CHITHALEN MEMORIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT LENDING LIBRARY (Ontario) receives grants from 15 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$169,635 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR KINGSTON & AREA (C$54,997). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE JOE CHITHALEN MEMORIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT LENDING LIBRARY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 15 organizations giving C$169,635 in grants to THE JOE CHITHALEN MEMORIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT LENDING LIBRARY, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE JOE CHITHALEN MEMORIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT LENDING LIBRARY?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR KINGSTON & AREA is the largest funder on record, with C$54,997 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE JOE CHITHALEN MEMORIAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT LENDING LIBRARY 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 15 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