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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.

C$7.2M
Revenue FY2024
34
Funders on record
C$5.4M
Grants received
C$109M
Net assets
16/34 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%

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.

Operating margin8% · below the median
Months of reserve8.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

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.

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$8.4M) Expenses 100 (C$5.1M) Net assets 100 (C$78M)2018 Revenue 81 (C$6.8M) Expenses 100 (C$5.1M) Net assets 103 (C$80M)2019 Revenue 92 (C$7.7M) Expenses 123 (C$6.3M) Net assets 106 (C$83M)2020 Revenue 130 (C$11M) Expenses 120 (C$6.1M) Net assets 93 (C$72M)2021 Revenue 69 (C$5.8M) Expenses 133 (C$6.8M) Net assets 120 (C$93M)2022 Revenue 93 (C$7.8M) Expenses 148 (C$7.5M) Net assets 123 (C$96M)2023 Revenue 85 (C$7.1M) Expenses 113 (C$5.8M) Net assets 123 (C$96M)2024 Revenue 86 (C$7.2M) Expenses 130 (C$6.6M) Net assets 141 (C$109M)
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Revenue (86)Expenses (130)Net assets (141)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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2020
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 186 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$3.3M
’17
C$1.7M
’18
C$1.5M
’19
C$4.8M
’20
−C$921k
’21
C$312k
’22
C$1.3M
’23
C$571k
’24
8.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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.

48%
largest funder
64%
top three
~4
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

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’23
Ontario out of province

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.

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 34 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 ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO reports

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

FY2024C$306k
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  • 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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members

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