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TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION

TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 52 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$6,850,504 to it, the largest being Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundation (C$1,610,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$398k
Revenue FY2024
52
Funders on record
C$6.9M
Grants received
C$-56335
Net assets
28/52 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 68%

Against its field

TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 689 education in the arts nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve17.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−22% · bottom quartile

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$2.2M) Expenses 100 (C$2.2M) Net assets 100 (C$335k)2018 Revenue 163 (C$3.7M) Expenses 73 (C$1.6M) Net assets 700 (C$2.3M)2019 Revenue 90 (C$2.0M) Expenses 89 (C$2.0M) Net assets 93 (C$312k)2020 Revenue 128 (C$2.9M) Expenses 131 (C$2.9M) Net assets 76 (C$254k)2021 Revenue 84 (C$1.9M) Expenses 82 (C$1.8M) Net assets 85 (C$286k)2022 Revenue 65 (C$1.4M) Expenses 74 (C$1.6M) Net assets 27 (C$89k)2023 Revenue 94 (C$2.1M) Expenses 76 (C$1.7M) Net assets 151 (C$507k)2024 Revenue 18 (C$398k) Expenses 18 (C$408k) Net assets -17 (C$-56335)
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Revenue (18)Expenses (18)Net assets (-17)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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 8% · 2020 8% · 2021 6% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

27% of TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$6k
’17
C$2.0M
’18
C$12k
’19
−C$59k
’20
C$32k
’21
−C$196k
’22
C$418k
’23
−C$10k
’24
18
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 14 funders, grant income fell C$768k → C$702k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$214k
The Lang Family Foundationunclassified
C$151k
Toronto Foundationunclassified
C$74k
The Glen Nevis Foundationunclassified
C$50k
J.P. Bickell Foundationunclassified
C$35k
Aqueduct Foundationunclassified
C$25k
Inspirit Foundationunclassified
C$13k
Bealight Foundationunclassified
C$10k
funders
14
19
21
17
15
21
14
9

From the CRA filings of TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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

TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION.

24%
largest funder
48%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 30% · 2019 29% · 2020 45% · 2021 35% · 2022 30% · 2023 43% — growing more concentrated.

“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

26% of TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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

98% of TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION'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$455k 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 52 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 TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION reports

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

FY2022C$82k
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22
  • 6% of FY2022 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION

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

Toronto Arts Foundation80%Toronto Cultural Advisory Corporation79%The Arts Access Fund78%Arts Starts Neighbourhood Cultural Centre77%Sketch Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth77%London Arts Council75%Urbanarts Community Arts Council74%Lassonde Art Trail Foundation74%

Nationally

Toronto Arts Foundation80%Toronto Cultural Advisory Corporation79%The Arts Access Fund78%Arts Starts Neighbourhood Cultural Centre77%Sketch Working Arts for Street Involved and Homeless Youth77%Arts Umbrella Association76%London Arts Council75%Urbanarts Community Arts Council74%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION?
TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION (Ontario) receives grants from 52 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$6,850,504 to it, the largest being Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundation (C$1,610,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 52 organizations giving C$6,850,504 in grants to TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION?
Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$1,610,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TORONTO ARTSCAPE FOUNDATION 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 52 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