Music Education Charity of Canada
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 106842057RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,761,586) as filed with the CRA.
Music Education Charity of Canada is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $3.6M in revenue and $2.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 33% from donations, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $869K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 90 qualified donees totalling $1.3M in 2024, the largest being $19K to Jack River School. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
Musicounts is a music education charity that supports urban and rural community organizations and schools throughout canada. This is done by way of donations of musical instruments and cash for musical instruments and materials to schools and community programs as well as grants to music students and best music teacher awards. Musicounts learn is an online portal to support the advancement of music education through innovative learning resources for teachers and students
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.6M | $2.8M | $474K | $50K | $1.4M | $3.5M |
| 2023 | $2.9M | $2.1M | $489K | $38K | $974K | $3.2M |
| 2022 | $2.3M | $2.6M | $863K | $87K | $779K | $3.1M |
| 2021 | $2.4M | $2.4M | $879K | $23K | $925K | $3.4M |
| 2020 | $2.7M | $2.3M | $1M | $39K | $764K | $3.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.3M to 90 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Jack River School$19K
- Jarvis Collegiate Institute$19K
- École Elementaire KB Woodwards$19K
- The Pas Friendship Centre Inc.$19K
- Pan African Legacy$19K
- Ooknakane Friendship Centre$19K
- Uncle Gabe's Friendship Centre$19K
- Kawartha Youth Orchestra$19K
- Moosonee Public School$19K
- Alexander Stirling PS$19K
- Bay d'Espoir Academy$19K
- Gilbert Paterson Middle School$19K
- Edmonton Symphony Society$19K
- El Sistema Calgary Multicultural Orchestra Foundation$19K
- The Scarborough Concert Band$19K
- Mi'Kmaw Native Friendship Society$19K
- New Brunswick Youth Orchestra Inc.$19K
- Kisemattawa Kiskinwahamakewikamik$18K
- Bert Fox Community High School$18K
- Mount Hope Elementary School$18K
- Kilbride Public School$18K
- John Martin Junior High School$18K
- École Terre des Jeunes$18K
- Port Hardy Secondary School$18K
- Nakusp Elementary$18K
Received $869K from 20 charities:
- The Slaight Family Foundation$400K
- RBC Foundation$150K
- The Lewitt Family Foundation$125K
- BenefAction Foundation$100K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$25K
- Wellington West Foundation Inc.$15K
- J and W Murphy Foundation$15K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$9,532
- The Newall Family Foundation$5,000
- Bailie Family Foundation$5,000
- The Robert and Tatiana Ritchie Foundation$2,500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$2,400
- The Hermant Family Foundation$1,500
- The Calgary Foundation$1,150
- Battle River Community Foundation$900
- Reed Charitable Foundation$700
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$276
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$194
- Canadahelps Canadon$43
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$796K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Julie Adam (chair); Allan Reid (ceo); Shane Carter (1st vice chair); Kristen Burke (2nd vice chair); Jeffrey Remedios (director); Eric Hoffman (director); Alexandra Bellamy (director); Miro Oballa (director); Helen Britton (director); Jennifer Dettman (director); Julie Nagam (director); Mark Harrison (director); Kate Purchase (director); Adam Burchill (director); Philippe Archambault (director); Hussain Yoosuf (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Music Education Charity of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106842057RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.