Lunchbox Theatre
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 119025690RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($673,349) as filed with the CRA.
Lunchbox Theatre is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $632K in revenue and $673K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from donations, 35% from government, 31% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $128K.
Compared with 724 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 14% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
To produce and present one act theatre productions to develop with play writes once act plays for production to foster development of theatre directors actors and technicians through rehearsal perfomrmances and special presentations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $632K | $673K | $346K | $7,261 | — | $58K |
| 2023 | $584K | $624K | $337K | $7,073 | — | $138K |
| 2022 | $671K | $704K | $403K | $32K | — | $159K |
| 2021 | $523K | $352K | $147K | $3,080 | — | $194K |
| 2020 | $827K | $707K | $152K | $3,003 | — | -$17K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $128K from 11 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$88K
- Prairie Crocus Foundation$10K
- RBC Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Norrep Foundation$5,000
- Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation$2,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,341
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$994
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$85
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$50
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$292K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Duval Lang (board chair); Steven Rosendorff (vice chair); Ross Douglas (treasure); Daniel MacAulay (member); Rhonda Parhar (member); Liam Christie (secretary); Andrew Pernal (director); Maura Graham (director); Camille McCreath (member); Darren Polanski (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lunchbox Theatre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119025690RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.