Hot Docs
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 895921880RR0001 · Education in the Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,353,026) as filed with the CRA.
Hot Docs is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $7.7M in revenue and $10.4M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 52% from donations, 16% from government. In 2024, 25 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $289K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 77% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 50 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
To educate the public about documentary film as an art form in order to enable the public to appreciate the merits of good documentary filmmaking
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.7M | $10.4M | $9M | $181K | — | $818K |
| 2023 | $9.1M | $11.1M | $9.5M | $175K | — | $4.1M |
| 2022 | $9M | $8.6M | $7.7M | $808K | — | $4.9M |
| 2021 | $7.7M | $6.9M | $6.2M | $631K | — | $4.5M |
| 2020 | $7.4M | $7.2M | $6.5M | $581K | — | $3.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $289K from 25 charities:
- The Slaight Family Foundation$200K
- The Bennett Family Foundation$100K
- Toronto Foundation$69K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$45K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$44K
- Makeway Foundation$16K
- Canadahelps Canadon$15K
- Abundance Canada$13K
- Vancouver Foundation$13K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- The Jay and Barbara Hennick Family Foundation$10K
- Temerty Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$9,052
- R&M Lang Foundation$7,500
- The Andy and Beth Burgess Family Foundation$5,000
- Panicaro Foundation$5,000
- Pitblado Foundation$5,000
- The K M Hunter Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Nick & Lynn Ross Charitable Foundation$3,500
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$2,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,016
- Link Charity Canada Inc$1,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,000
- Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario$287
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation-$300K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions50
- Total compensation, all staff$4.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nicholas De Pencier; Lydia Luckevich; Neil Tabatznik; Kevin Wong.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hot Docs’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 895921880RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.