Art Gallery of Ontario
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118790401RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($109,225,142) as filed with the CRA.
Art Gallery of Ontario is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $101.5M in revenue and $109.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations, 22% from government, 16% from other charities. In 2024, 95 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $26.7M.
Compared with 46 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 62% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 76% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 339 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 32 names.
In its own words
As a public museum the ago's mission is to bring people together. The ago has a collection of more than 100 000 works which it protects and preserves for current and future generations 4 000 of which are on constant public display.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $101.5M | $109.2M | $94.5M | $5.2M | — | $5M |
| 2023 | $93.5M | $98.5M | — | — | — | -$3.9M |
| 2022 | $74M | $76.2M | — | — | $3.2M | $688K |
| 2021 | $69.4M | $76.2M | — | — | $5.4M | $3.1M |
| 2020 | $83.7M | $90.5M | — | — | — | -$5.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $26.7M from 95 charities:
- The Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation$11.7M
- The Dani Reiss Foundation$7M
- The Michael and Sonja Koerner Charitable Foundation$1M
- Hal Jackman Foundation$1M
- The Carol and Morton Rapp Foundation$600K
- Mauer-Sheiner Foundation$600K
- Aqueduct Foundation$417K
- The Shen Family Charitable Foundation$415K
- The Michael Young Family Foundation$405K
- Lindy Green Family Foundation$400K
- THE IRA GLUSKIN AND MAXINE GRANOVSKY GLUSKIN CHARITABLE FOUNdation$385K
- The Lewitt Family Foundation$240K
- The Robert Harding Foundation$175K
- The Sabourin Family Foundation$160K
- RBC Foundation$150K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$150K
- Albert and Temmy Latner Family Foundation$145K
- The Azrieli Foundation$140K
- Greenrock Charitable Trust$120K
- The Willie and Mildred Fleischer Charitable Foundation$110K
- The Schulich Foundation$100K
- The Bennett Family Foundation$100K
- WCPD Foundation$100K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$89K
- The Haynes-Connell Foundation$53K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9995 positions
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions339
- Total compensation, all staff$43.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Binet (trustee); Camillo DI Prata (vice president); Camillo DI Prata (trustee); Rupert Duchesne (president); Rupert Duchesne (trustee); Andrew Federer (vice president); Andrew Federer (trustee); Lorne Gertner (trustee); Marianne Guizzetti (trustee); Beth Horowitz (trustee); Stephan Jost (chief executive officer); Michelle Koerner (trustee); Zun Lee (trustee); Josee Letarte (trustee); Ausma Malik (trustee); Liza Mauer (vice president); Liza Mauer (trustee); Leslie McCarley (trustee); Carol McNamara (trustee); Neda Moeini (trustee); Kenneth Montague (trustee); Mazyar Mortazavi (trustee); Liza-Mari Murrell (trustee); Gordon Nixon (trustee); Tawfiq Popatia (trustee); Erin Prendergast (secretary); Janet Robinson (trustee); Judith Schulich (trustee); Sarah Scott (trustee); Eleanor Shen (trustee); Jay Smith (vice president); Jay Smith (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Art Gallery of Ontario’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118790401RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.