Commffest Community Film Festival
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 832738744RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($24,752) as filed with the CRA.
Commffest Community Film Festival 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $21K in revenue and $25K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
Compared with 89 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 84% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
A film festival designed to entertain and educate communities through the art of film making music and art exhibits forums and workshops for both adults and the youth. The festival conducts workshops fundraising and annual screens to help sustain itself. we employ volunteers to help with our programs .e.g workshop assistants ticketing hosting promotional handouts website designs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $21K | $25K | $24K | — | — | $8,655 |
| 2023 | $62K | $58K | $58K | — | — | $15K |
| 2022 | $54K | $48K | $43K | — | $0 | $4,500 |
| 2021 | $68K | $60K | $60K | — | — | $4,600 |
| 2020 | $18K | $18K | $14K | — | $0 | $4,600 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$3,500
Schedule 3 of its 2021 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sandie de Freitas (president/ director/treasurer); Norman Hart (vp/director/secretary); Narinder Dhaliwal (director); Geri Hart- Stocks (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Commffest Community Film Festival’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 832738744RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.