Canada's National Ballet School l'Ecole Nationale de Ballet du Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 108089673RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($29,224,000) as filed with the CRA.
Canada's National Ballet School l'Ecole Nationale de Ballet du Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $27.5M in revenue and $29.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 24% from government, 18% from other charities. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5.6M.
Compared with 39 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 13% 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 $250,000–299,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 184 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 27 names.
In its own words
Canada's National Ballet School recruits the most talented dance students through a national recruitment tour followed by a second-stage 4-week assessment program; provides financial assistance to students; trains dance students for a professional ballet career; provides dance students with an academic education; provides students outside the GTA with residential care; provides career transition program to dance students; trains students and former dancers to become ballet teachers; provides professional development classes for dance teachers; provides dance classes for adults and part-time cl…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $27.5M | $29.2M | $20.5M | $1.5M | — | $58.5M |
| 2023 | $26.7M | $29M | $20.5M | $1.4M | — | $60.1M |
| 2022 | $24M | $27.6M | $20M | $1.2M | — | $61.8M |
| 2021 | $26M | $26.1M | $19.2M | $1M | — | $64.5M |
| 2020 | $25.9M | $25.1M | $18.6M | $1.1M | — | $61.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $5.6M from 28 charities:
- Canada's National Ballet School Foundation/Fondation de l'École nationale de ballet du Canada$4.1M
- The Joan and Jerry Lozinski Foundation$350K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$338K
- BenefAction Foundation$302K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$173K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- The Michael and Sonja Koerner Charitable Foundation$50K
- The Blidner Family Foundation$30K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$28K
- Larry And Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation$25K
- Leslois Shaw Foundation$25K
- The Michelle Koerner Family Foundation$25K
- Allen Family Foundation$20K
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$16K
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund$13K
- The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation$8,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,270
- Toronto Foundation$5,666
- Michael and Karen Vukets Family Foundation$5,500
- The Harry E Foster Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The Delaney Family Foundation$5,000
- Caron Thorburn Institute$3,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$3,000
- The Burton Charitable Foundation$1,500
- The Jay and Barbara Hennick Family Foundation$1,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions184
- Total compensation, all staff$14.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Baker (secretary); Amanda Balasubramanian (director); David Delaney (director); Jolie Lin (director); Zachary Newton (vice-chair); Brian Miron (director); Judith Moses (director); Ed Ogonek (director); Anne Soh (director); Andrea Stairs Krishnappa (chair); Tanya Taylor (director); Michael Vels (treasurer); Anisa Tejpar (director); Justin Bobb (director); Karlee Vukets (director); Patrizia Ferrari (director); Monica Shin (director); Hilary Hennick (director); Joy Loewen (vice-chair); Fabio Mascarin (director); Hope Muir (director); Raji Aujla (director); Daniella Carrington (director); Raghunath Davloor (director); Allison Freeman (director); Emad Ghattas (director); Ratika Gandhi (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canada's National Ballet School l'Ecole Nationale de Ballet du Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108089673RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.