Open Studio
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119068823RR0001 · Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($677,179) as filed with the CRA.
Open Studio is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $816K in revenue and $677K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 26% from government, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $193K.
Compared with 724 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 71% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 75% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The organization's objective is to provide facilities and services in lithography etching and screen printing to canadian artists and to exhibit their works. The organization provides rental space to professional artists for a monthly fee and makes available artistic supplies and printing services in the studio facilities. The organization also makes their facilities available to artists on a daily and weekly basis to further facilitate access and use of their studio. On site education and instruction is provided to course participants who have access to guest lecturers workshops and in…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $816K | $677K | $609K | $40K | — | $97K |
| 2023 | $611K | $700K | $671K | $4,855 | — | -$42K |
| 2022 | $649K | $698K | $568K | $1,520 | — | $46K |
| 2021 | $670K | $573K | $440K | $34K | — | $95K |
| 2020 | $628K | $608K | $504K | $1,216 | — | $4,360 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $193K from 9 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$238K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Emma Juliette Fried (associate member); Defne Inceoglu (associate member); Alexandra Terrell (associate member); Sana Waheed (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Open Studio’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119068823RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.