Aciac
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 819027087RR0001 · Education in the Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,130,796) as filed with the CRA.
Aciac is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $2.5M in revenue and $2.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 50% from donations, 46% from other charities. In 2024, 33 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.4M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 15 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $867K in 2020 to $2.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
1) the canadian onliine art book project 2) art canada institute lecture series 3) aci homepage content 4) the canadian art education program 5) the canadian art library (print edition books) 6) redefining canadian art history fellowship program
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $2.1M | $1.2M | $108K | — | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $2.4M | $2M | $1.3M | $111K | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.4M | $1M | $31K | $1,000 | $774K |
| 2021 | $1M | $795K | $563K | $64K | — | $591K |
| 2020 | $867K | $802K | $458K | $29K | — | $298K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.4M from 33 charities:
- Aqueduct Foundation$955K
- Canadahelps Canadon$318K
- Canadahelps Canadon$318K
- The Balsillie Family Foundation$140K
- Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan Family Foundation$100K
- The Sabourin Family Foundation$100K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$65K
- Canada Gives$55K
- Lynwood Family Foundation$50K
- Toronto Foundation$43K
- The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation$25K
- D.R. Sobey Foundation$25K
- The Michelle Koerner Family Foundation$25K
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$25K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$25K
- Alan and Patricia Koval Foundation$25K
- The McLean Foundation$25K
- Mauer-Sheiner Foundation$10K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$10K
- The Michael Young Family Foundation$10K
- The Krstajic Foundation$10K
- The Scott Griffin Foundation$10K
- Michael and Inna O'Brian Family Foundation$5,000
- London Community Foundation$5,000
- Lindy Green Family Foundation$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions15
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jamie Cameron (secretary); Kiki Delaney (chair); Jon Dellandrea (chair emeritus); Tim Griffin (director); Robert Houle (director); Sammy Lau (director); Nancy McCain (director); Gerald McMaster (director); Nalini Stewart (director); Steven Wilson (director); Susan Wortzman (director); Joyce Zemans (director); Michael Audain (director); Shabin Mohamed (director); Carol Weinbaum (director); Tate Abois (director); John Bianchini (director); Katherine Graham Debost (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Aciac’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 819027087RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.