Community Music Schools of Toronto
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 872116025RR0001 · Education in the Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,384,885) as filed with the CRA.
Community Music Schools of Toronto is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from government, 92% from other charities. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.6M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.6M in 2020 to $2.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 17 names.
In its own words
The school’s goals are to engage its students build their character and provide them with the confidence and discipline to achieve their full potential and to be acknowledged by its community as one of the city’s leading music education institutions offering progressive and collaborative programs through a creative curriculum.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $2.4M | $1.5M | $79K | — | $158K |
| 2023 | $2.2M | $2.2M | $1.4M | — | — | $156K |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1M | — | — | $155K |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $641K | — | — | $154K |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $960K | — | — | $153K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.6M from 26 charities:
- Community Music Schools of Toronto Foundation$2.2M
- The Lang Family Foundation$150K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$35K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$25K
- Amelia & Lino Saputo Foundation$25K
- Cidel Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- The Lewitt Family Foundation$20K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$18K
- Fellowship of Man Charitable Foundation$15K
- The Norman and Marian Robertson Charitable Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- F. K. Morrow Foundation$7,500
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$7,500
- The Chawkers foundation$5,000
- The Janice Lewis and Mitchell Cohen Foundation$5,000
- The Henry White Kinnear Foundation$5,000
- WCPD Foundation$5,000
- Kingsway Lambton United Church$3,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,500
- ST. George's Society of Toronto Charitable Trust Fund$2,000
- Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario$1,000
- R&M Lang Foundation$750
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$600
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$1.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Martin Abel (chair); Chad Aboud (secretary); Sharon Barnes-Simmonds (director); Aranya Chatterjee (director); Anna D'Uva (director); Amy Desjarlais (director); Steve Greenidge (director); Bina John (director); John McGowan (director); Donald McLeod (director); Jesse Mighton (director); Jennifer Postelnik (director); Marsha Rothstein (director); Portia-Marie Siegel (tbd); David ST. Bernard (director); Doug Tames (treasurer); Jason Tham (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Community Music Schools of Toronto’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 872116025RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.