Opera Five Inc.
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 814936738RR0001 · Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($276,368) as filed with the CRA.
Opera Five Inc. is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $107K in revenue and $276K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from donations. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $53K.
Compared with 724 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Opera 5 was founded with the goal of finding new operatic audiences and pushing boundaries through mixed-media performances and re-envisioning performance practice in opera. Opera 5 became a Not-for-profit Corporation and was granted Charitable Status on July 15th 2013 with a mandate to promote Canadian professionals in the Operatic world through opera performances including the premiere of Canadian written operas and to find and educate new opera audiences to enjoy the medium. 1) Through the pandemic Opera 5 in partnership with Gazelle Automations wrote and produced 9 episodes for …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $107K | $276K | $265K | — | — | $98K |
| 2023 | $145K | $114K | $106K | — | — | $267K |
| 2022 | $137K | $71K | $67K | — | — | $237K |
| 2021 | $104K | $71K | $69K | — | — | $170K |
| 2020 | $128K | $23K | $21K | — | — | $138K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $53K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$19K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
George Hoff (secretary); Amelia Lyon (director); David Matthews (director); Victoria Novak (president); Catherine Gordon (director); Aidan Johnston (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Opera Five Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 814936738RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.