Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118820778RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,146,691) as filed with the CRA.
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from donations, 60% from government, 10% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $186K.
Compared with 90 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 69% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Produced a variety of theatrical productions and festivals. Participated in the development of new Canadian plays.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $991K | $55K | — | $1.9M |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $791K | $53K | — | $1.7M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.3M | — | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $949K | $0 | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $1.4M | — | — | — | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $186K from 14 charities:
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$66K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$44K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- The K M Hunter Charitable Foundation$4,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,414
- Toronto Foundation$2,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$500
- The Calgary Foundation$500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$260
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$48
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$769K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Man (chair); Anu Radha Verma (secretary); Alexander Hutchison (treasurer); Jesse Griffiths (director); Alex Rand (director); Sedina Fiati (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118820778RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.