Crow's Theatre
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118880475RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($8,045,629) as filed with the CRA.
Crow's Theatre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $8.2M in revenue and $8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 16% from donations, 6% from government, 34% from other charities. In 2024, 45 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.8M.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 24 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $901K in 2024, the largest being $900K to Crow's Theatre Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.2M in 2020 to $8.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 19 names.
In its own words
Crow's theatre specializes in new theatrical voices within an alternative sensibility and works with a sense of social criticism expressed through a strong theatrical voice. Crow's theatre works with young actors playwrights directors and designers allowing them the opportunity to practice their craft with an established company.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.2M | $8M | $6.8M | $92K | $901K | $772K |
| 2023 | $5.2M | $5.4M | $4.8M | $106K | $261K | $599K |
| 2022 | $4.6M | $4.1M | $3.5M | $95K | $300K | $396K |
| 2021 | $3M | $2.9M | $2.2M | $78K | $400K | $374K |
| 2020 | $3.2M | $3.2M | $2.7M | $30K | $225K | $247K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $901K to 4 qualified donees:
Received $1.8M from 45 charities:
- McLean Smits Family Foundation$600K
- Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundation$150K
- Crow's Theatre Foundation$140K
- The Slaight Family Foundation$100K
- Weston Family Foundation$100K
- Canadahelps Canadon$56K
- Canadahelps Canadon$56K
- The Clearview Foundation$50K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$50K
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$44K
- BenefAction Foundation$35K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$31K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$29K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$26K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$25K
- The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation$25K
- T.R. Meighen Family Foundation/Fondation de la Famille T.R. Meighen$25K
- The Ouellette Family Foundation$25K
- WCPD Foundation$25K
- The Thor E and Nicole Eaton Family Charitable Foundation$25K
- The Sabourin Family Foundation$25K
- Kingfisher Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$17K
- Smith Family Foundation$13K
- Toronto Foundation$11K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions24
- Total compensation, all staff$2.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Anne Maggisano (director); Elly Daniels (director); Greg Reed (treasurer); Gurbani Marwah (director); Heather Jessiman (director); Josef Bornbaum (director); Layth Gafoor (director); Margaret Nelligan (interim chair); Max Meighen (director); Prakash Amarasooriya (director); Wendy Pitblado (director); Nancy Tremblay (secretary); Shelby Austin (director); Gabe Gonda (director); John Kisson (director); Seaton McLean (director); Jonathan Nehmetallah (director); Michael Paris (director); John Brodhead (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Crow's Theatre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118880475RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.