Ontario · Registered charity
ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO
ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO (Ontario) receives grants from 34 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,417,972 to it, the largest being NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (C$2,595,447). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO is better cushioned than half of the 208 foundations advancing education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 208 foundations advancing education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Partners in Artportfolio match
- The Shen Family Charitable 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 2% · 2018 12% · 2019 6% · 2020 6% · 2021 8% · 2022 11% · 2023 7% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell C$1.5M → C$695k.
From the CRA filings of ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 64%; 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 ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 65% · 2019 27% · 2020 27% · 2021 60% · 2022 39% · 2023 43% — 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
25% of ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
99% of ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO'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$125k 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 34 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Partners in Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shen Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stonefields Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Michelle Koerner Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trinity Development Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William and Jean Teron Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Thor E and Nicole Eaton Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marilyn and Charles Baillie Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bennett Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- The Slaight Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 96 organizations that share your funders
- The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundationshared fundersON · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
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 ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 4% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO
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 ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO?
- ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO (Ontario) receives grants from 34 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,417,972 to it, the largest being NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (C$2,595,447). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 34 organizations giving C$5,417,972 in grants to ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO?
- NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION OF CANADA is the largest funder on record, with C$2,595,447 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
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 34 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