Ontario · Registered charity
THE TORONTO WRITERS' COLLECTIVE
THE TORONTO WRITERS' COLLECTIVE (Ontario) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,068,165 to it, the largest being THE AZRIELI FOUNDATION/LA FONDATION AZRIELI (C$300,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE TORONTO WRITERS' COLLECTIVE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 689 education in the arts nonprofits its size.
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.
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Metropolitan Community Church of Torontolocal
- The Peter and Eleanor Daniels Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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: 2019 82% · 2020 57% · 2021 58% · 2022 48% · 2023 46% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of THE TORONTO WRITERS' COLLECTIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose C$35k → C$205k.
From the CRA filings of THE TORONTO WRITERS' COLLECTIVE’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 TORONTO WRITERS' COLLECTIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 70%; 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 TORONTO WRITERS' COLLECTIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 49% · 2021 54% · 2022 64% · 2023 37% — 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
63% of THE TORONTO WRITERS' COLLECTIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
THE TORONTO WRITERS' COLLECTIVE draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Ontario, across 5 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$105k 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 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 72 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Metropolitan Community Church of TorontolocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Peter and Eleanor Daniels Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The K. M. Hunter Charitableportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McLean Smits Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lewitt Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lindy Green Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Delaney Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sabourin Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Norman & Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marilyn and Charles Baillie Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nancy's Very Own Foundationportfolio 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 THE TORONTO WRITERS' COLLECTIVE reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 16% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE TORONTO WRITERS' COLLECTIVE
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE TORONTO WRITERS' COLLECTIVE?
- THE TORONTO WRITERS' COLLECTIVE (Ontario) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,068,165 to it, the largest being THE AZRIELI FOUNDATION/LA FONDATION AZRIELI (C$300,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE TORONTO WRITERS' COLLECTIVE have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 18 organizations giving C$1,068,165 in grants to THE TORONTO WRITERS' COLLECTIVE, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE TORONTO WRITERS' COLLECTIVE?
- THE AZRIELI FOUNDATION/LA FONDATION AZRIELI is the largest funder on record, with C$300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE TORONTO WRITERS' COLLECTIVE 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 18 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