Canadian Opera Company
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118834829RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($33,786,432) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Opera Company is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $33.2M in revenue and $33.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 20% from government, 34% from other charities. In 2024, 66 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $12.4M.
Compared with 39 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 26% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 68 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 29 names.
In its own words
1. We present fully staged operas each season. 2. We present various programs concerts and operas digitally to make it accessible to all our patrons. 3. We present at various times operatic and orchestral concerts. 3. We provide a training program for young singers coaches stage directors and orchestra players. 4. We provide a program for composers which facilitates the commissioning and development of new operas by Canadian composers. 5. We provide opera courses to adults. 6. We run several education and outreach programs for school aged students. 7. We engage in touring and radio b…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $33.2M | $33.8M | $26.1M | $2.1M | $0 | -$2.9M |
| 2023 | $31.9M | $32.4M | $26.4M | $2.1M | $0 | -$2.3M |
| 2022 | $25.7M | $25.6M | $19.9M | $1.7M | $550K | -$1.8M |
| 2021 | $20.1M | $19.1M | $12.7M | $1.7M | $1.1M | -$2M |
| 2020 | $29.2M | $29.9M | $23.2M | $2.9M | $0 | -$3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $12.4M from 66 charities:
- Canadian Opera Foundation$8.5M
- Canadian Opera House Corporation$1.1M
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$550K
- The P.austin Family Foundation$500K
- The Henry White Kinnear Foundation$250K
- Arrell Family Foundation$200K
- Brookfield Partners Foundation$200K
- RBC Foundation$160K
- The Whiteside Foundation$105K
- The Azrieli Foundation$100K
- BenefAction Foundation$75K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$49K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$34K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$32K
- Patrick and Barbara Keenan Foundation$31K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$30K
- The H. John McDonald Foundation$30K
- The Henry White Kinnear Foundation$30K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$25K
- Nancy's Very Own Foundation$25K
- The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation$25K
- The Sixty Three Foundation$25K
- The McLean Foundation$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$25K
- Aqueduct Foundation$25K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over3 positions
- $160,000–199,9994 positions
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions68
- Total compensation, all staff$13.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Anthony Arrell (director); Marcia Lewis Brown (director); Sarah Cohen (director); Brian Collins (treasurer); Willam Fearn (director); David Ferguson (director/ex-officio); Eudice Goldberg (director); Jeff Lloyd (director); John Macfarlane (secretary); Anne Maggisano (director); Varqa Mirzaagha (director); Jonathan Morgan (chair); Colleen Sexsmith (director); Paul Spafford (vice chair); Kristine Vikmanis (director); Graham Watchorn (director); Sadhisha Ambagahawita (director); Barry Avrich (director); Al Ramsay (director); Kristy Balkwill (director); Mike Brown (director); Shelly Campbell (director); Julianna Greenspan (director); Christopher Jones (director); Terrence Leon (director); Lily Li (director); Bruce Murray (director); Glenn Sakaki (director); Troy Ungerman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Opera Company’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118834829RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.