Mass Culture Canada
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118830371RR0001 · National Arts Service Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($439,013) as filed with the CRA.
Mass Culture Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under national arts service organizations. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $532K in revenue and $439K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 17% from donations, 51% from government, 7% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $135K.
Compared with 355 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $185K in 2021 to $532K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Mass Culture will oversee the development training and dissemination of information data and research about the Canadian arts and culture sector. Activities for Mass Culture are the following: 1. Developing and stewarding a network of stakeholders to exchange and create research; 2. Helping set conditions for cultural research discussions and collaborative work to take place; 3. Organizing events and communications to share and make cultural research accessible; 4. Creating and maintaining a publicly accessible database of cultural research; 5. Conducting workshops and training in research …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $532K | $439K | $260K | — | — | $158K |
| 2023 | $851K | $849K | $595K | — | — | $65K |
| 2022 | $273K | $267K | $106K | — | — | $63K |
| 2021 | $185K | $146K | $141K | — | — | $57K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $135K from 5 charities:
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
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$168K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nadine Medawar (co-chair); Cat MacKeigan; Em Ironstar (treasurer); Benjamin Dietschi; Suki Wellman.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mass Culture Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118830371RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.