Dancer Transition Resource Centre/centre de Ressources pour Danseurs en Transition
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 101258077RR0001 · National Arts Service Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,241,058) as filed with the CRA.
Dancer Transition Resource Centre/centre de Ressources pour Danseurs en Transition is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under national arts service organizations. 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 22% from donations, 55% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $104K.
Compared with 90 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 98% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Founded in 1985 the dancer transition resource center (dtrc) is a national charitable organization dedicated to helping dancers make necessary transitions into within and from professional performing careers. Dtrc also operate as a resource center for the dance community and general public and support activities that improve the socioeconomic conditions of artists across the country. Dtrc's mission is to serve professional* canadian dancers from diverse backgrounds dance forms and practices both at home and abroad by being a resource for career development and transition.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.2M | $568K | $3,432 | $339K | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.3M | $5,139 | $212K | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $981K | $1.2M | $845K | $7,034 | — | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $956K | $3,149 | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1.3M | $948K | $2,455 | — | $1.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $104K from 12 charities:
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario$9,368
- The Winnipeg Foundation$6,000
- The Langar Foundation$5,000
- Phyliss and Irving Snider Foundation$5,000
- WCPD Foundation$5,000
- Hogarth Family Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$791
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$500
- Dance Saskatchewan Incorporated$250
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
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$519K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Cynthia Bliss (treasurer); Patricia Fraser (chair); Brenda Gorlick (director); Jill Humphries (secretary); Alèn Martel (vice - chair); Garry Neil (director); Monique Rabideau (past chair); Lee Sela (director); Lynda White (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Dancer Transition Resource Centre/centre de Ressources pour Danseurs en Transition’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 101258077RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.