Ontario Association of Art Galleries
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 107796690RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($445,082) as filed with the CRA.
Ontario Association of Art Galleries is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 $476K in revenue and $445K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 74% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4,799.
Compared with 686 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 85% of that peer group. 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 $220K in 2020 to $476K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
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Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $476K | $445K | $356K | $13K | — | $141K |
| 2023 | $369K | $429K | $336K | $13K | — | $110K |
| 2022 | $408K | $420K | $357K | — | — | $169K |
| 2021 | $460K | $341K | $283K | — | — | $181K |
| 2020 | $220K | $224K | $175K | — | — | $61K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4,799 from 2 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)
Katerina Atanassova (board member); Glen Bloom (treasurer); Olinda Casimiro (board member); Shelley Falconer (board member); York Lethbridge (vice president); Nahed Mansour (secretary); Devyani Saltzman (board member); Christian Bernard Singer (past president); Robert Steven (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ontario Association of Art Galleries’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107796690RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.