Contact Photography Festival
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 834324204RR0001 · Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,039,596) as filed with the CRA.
Contact Photography Festival is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 40% from government. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $76K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 63% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Contact photography festival is committed to fostering public understanding and knowledge of the art of photography and the advancement of its artists. The organization administers and markets a photography festival publishes event guides program public exhibitions of photography and holds lectures and events on the subject of photography.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $1M | $889K | $24K | — | -$25K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.4M | — | — | — | -$199K |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.4M | — | — | — | $74K |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.4M | — | — | — | $123K |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $1M | — | $749 | — | $87K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $76K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$606K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Edward Burtynsky (director); Sarah Dinnick (director); Erin Iles (director); Olga Korper (director); Sally Lee (director); Felicia Mings (director); Lucia Greco (director); Abraham Oghobase (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Contact Photography Festival’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 834324204RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.