Hamilton Festival Theatre Company
Publicly funded institution · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 853476687RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($637,746) as filed with the CRA.
Hamilton Festival Theatre Company is a charitable organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. 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 October 31, 2024, it reported $731K in revenue and $638K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 62% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $106K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 8% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $250K in 2020 to $731K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The hamilton festival theatre company (hftco) is committed to training platform and amplifying hamilton theatre artists and storytellers. The hamilton festival theatre company builds a community for artists and cultivates work that is accessible innovative and artistically adventurous. This is done through productions that are made available to artists to take part in.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $731K | $638K | $307K | $305K | — | $46K |
| 2023 | $585K | $654K | $285K | $341K | — | -$47K |
| 2022 | $543K | $653K | $272K | $348K | — | $22K |
| 2021 | $529K | $446K | $28K | $201K | — | $132K |
| 2020 | $250K | $242K | $15K | $111K | — | $49K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $106K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$307K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Rundle (president); Cairine Wilson (vice president); Ruth Hatch (interim secretary); Ruth Flynn (director); Elizabeth Buchanan (director); Charlene Chung (director); Macneal Lashley (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hamilton Festival Theatre Company’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 853476687RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.