MABELLEarts
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 851763458RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,243,376) as filed with the CRA.
MABELLEarts is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 July 31, 2024, it reported $2.5M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 55% from government, 34% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $582K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 7% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 78% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $732K in 2020 to $2.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Ongoing programs-work on the transformation of our park through projects with artists architects gardeners and builders who work with mabelle residents to reimage transform and animate the mabelle park.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $1.2M | $739K | $114K | — | $293K |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $1.2M | $885K | $27K | — | $288K |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.3M | $992K | $28K | — | $224K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $936K | $737K | $13K | — | $183K |
| 2020 | $732K | $520K | $352K | — | — | $126K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $582K from 18 charities:
- Daily Bread Food Bank$117K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$98K
- Toronto Foundation$80K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$75K
- Balsam Foundation$50K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$40K
- Otto and Marie Pick Foundation$25K
- The McLean Foundation$25K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$24K
- MLSE Foundation$10K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$10K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,461
- The K M Hunter Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Mazon Canada$2,500
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$1,487
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$1,000
- The Charitable Trust of the Canadian Federation of University Women/etobicoke$300
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$639K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sheila Devata-Chchinov (director); Andrea Hamilton (director); Sarah Hillyer (director); Ismall Ibrahim (secretary); Joanna Tam (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from MABELLEarts’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 851763458RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.