Estonian Arts Centre
Charitable organization · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 889875191RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($179,942) as filed with the CRA.
Estonian Arts Centre is a charitable organization based in Scarborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $180K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from donations. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $107K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 3% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 81% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $14.6M in 2020 to $1.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Ongoing programs include film and media arts textile arts performing arts (dance music) and literary arts programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $180K | $17K | $84K | — | $29.1M |
| 2023 | $6.6M | $196K | $33K | $82K | — | $27.5M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $164K | $11K | $71K | — | $21.3M |
| 2021 | $5.6M | $167K | — | $100K | — | $19.9M |
| 2020 | $14.6M | $200K | — | — | $143K | $14.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $107K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Peter Viitre (director); Veiko Parming (director); Kaili Colford (director); Sue Harrison (director); Liisa Kaarid (director); Lea Koiv (director); Urve Tamberg (director); Silver Tambur (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Estonian Arts Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889875191RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.