Ontario · Registered charity
THEATRE-ACTION
THEATRE-ACTION (Ontario) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$152,565 to it, the largest being Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa (C$90,350). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
THEATRE-ACTION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,067 arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,067 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.
- Fondation de L'Institut Canadien Francais D'Ottawalocal
- Conseil des arts de Montréalportfolio match
- Fondation evenko pour le talent émergentportfolio 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 61% · 2018 64% · 2019 67% · 2020 67% · 2021 82% · 2022 79% · 2024 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of THEATRE-ACTION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell C$27k → C$18k.
From the CRA filings of THEATRE-ACTION’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
THEATRE-ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 THEATRE-ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 69% · 2021 51% · 2022 76% · 2023 56% — 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.
Where its funders are
59% of THEATRE-ACTION'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$62k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$90k 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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Fondation de L'Institut Canadien Francais D'OttawalocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Conseil des arts de Montréalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fondation evenko pour le talent émergentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Circuit-Estportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fondation Pierre Desmarais Belvedereportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cole foundation/La Fondation Coleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fondation Bourbeauportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fondation Lorraine et Jean Turmelportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- La Fondation du Grand Montréal - The Foundation of Greater Montrealportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Congregation Des Soeurs Des Saints Coeurs de Jesus Et de Marie de Joliette/Congregation of the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary of Jolietteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fondation Sibylla Hesseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fondation Dufresne & Gauthierportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 THEATRE-ACTION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 58% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THEATRE-ACTION
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THEATRE-ACTION?
- THEATRE-ACTION (Ontario) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$152,565 to it, the largest being Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa (C$90,350). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THEATRE-ACTION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 3 organizations giving C$152,565 in grants to THEATRE-ACTION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THEATRE-ACTION?
- Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa is the largest funder on record, with C$90,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THEATRE-ACTION 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 3 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