Regent Park Film Festival Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 845914613RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($569,026) as filed with the CRA.
Regent Park Film Festival Inc. is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. 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 $570K in revenue and $569K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 70% from government, 15% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $15K.
Compared with 355 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 38% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Regent Park Film Festival (RPFF) is an award-winning community-based non-profit organization and Toronto’s longest-running FREE film festival. RPFF’s mission is two-fold: to amplify and center marginalized communities and their stories providing a platform for the work of emerging and established artists while opening up access to the film and television industry; and to ensure art is free and accessible to everyone regardless of financial status. Showcasing local and international works from and about Black Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities RPFF presents film…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $570K | $569K | $414K | $3,160 | — | $160K |
| 2023 | $603K | $544K | $403K | $0 | — | $159K |
| 2022 | $475K | $481K | $345K | $7,960 | — | $100K |
| 2021 | $42K | $67K | $36K | $460 | — | $106K |
| 2020 | $425K | $363K | $264K | $8,084 | — | $124K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $15K from 3 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
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$366K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Erin Cox (treasurer); Joshua Richards (chair); Ayman Alvi (vice chair); Carly Kastner (director); David Osubronie (treasurer); Mabe Illah (director); Mekhala Chaubal (director); Paige Murray (director); Ranga Thangarajah (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Regent Park Film Festival Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 845914613RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.