Canadian Artists Representation
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 106842388RR0001 · National Arts Service Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,057,884) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Artists Representation is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under national arts service organizations. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 79% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $14K.
Compared with 90 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
It is the national voice of canda’s professional visual artists. Its aims and objectives are to promote the visual arts in canda to promote a socio-economic climate that is conducive to the production of visual arts in canda to do research and to engage in public education for these purposes. Ongoing programs for carfac include online tools/platforms where artists can access to help promote their artwork launch of the blockchain platform imprimo and the indigenous protocols for the visual arts toolkit which are al tools/platforms on carfac’s website to help visual artists in promoting th…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $1.1M | $966K | — | — | $100K |
| 2023 | $474K | $436K | $381K | — | — | $313K |
| 2022 | $918K | $914K | $862K | — | — | $78K |
| 2021 | $843K | $809K | $767K | — | — | $74K |
| 2020 | $744K | $739K | $648K | — | — | $39K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $14K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$246K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Shelley Freeman (member at large); Paddy Lamb (president); Annie France Noel (member at large); Cesar Alejandro Romero-Pineiro (treasurer); Daniel Rumbolt (secretary); Theresie Tungilik (vice president); Julia Purcell (member at large); Jennifer Rae Forsyth Wolters (member at large); Alexandra Silvaggi (member at large); Emily Pittman (member at large); Katie Green (member at large); Kristen Piercy (member at large); Rachel Marie Butler (member at large).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Artists Representation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106842388RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.