Lakeshore Arts Committee
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 882969744RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($462,125) as filed with the CRA.
Lakeshore Arts Committee is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under 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 July 31, 2024, it reported $678K in revenue and $462K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 51% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5,675.
Compared with 355 arts institutions 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 95% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
1. Juried and non-juried exhibitions as an opportunity for local emerging and established artists to showcase their works to the general public 2. Youth arts movement-a youth advisory group that develops/implements programs for peers 3. Affordable quality multi-disciplinary programming in music theatre visual arts all ages 4. Events that provide community opportunity to meet prof artists for insight & knowledge
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $678K | $462K | $376K | $88 | — | $538K |
| 2023 | $477K | $486K | $460K | $624 | — | $322K |
| 2022 | $609K | $599K | $502K | $7,489 | — | $332K |
| 2021 | $686K | $501K | $463K | — | $1,495 | $322K |
| 2020 | $627K | $553K | $511K | $64 | — | $137K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $5,675 from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$251K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Denise Choy (treasurer); May Yebuga (co-president); Katherine Bosnitch (director); Oscar Vazquez Rivera (secretary); Akshat Jhaveri Akshat (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lakeshore Arts Committee’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 882969744RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.