Royal Ontario Museum
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 105248256RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($93,466,272) as filed with the CRA.
Royal Ontario Museum is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $89.9M in revenue and $93.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 39% from government, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $16.2M.
Compared with 46 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 31% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 97% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 331 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
Opened in 1914 the royal ontario museum showcases art culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. Among the top 10 cultural institutions in north america canada's largest and most comprehensive museum is home to a world-class collection of 13 million art objects and natural history specimens featured in 40 gallery and exhibition spaces. As the country's preeminant field research institute and an international leader in new and original findings the rom plays a vital role in advancing our understanding of the artistic cultural and natural world.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $89.9M | $93.5M | $69.9M | $1.4M | — | -$52.7M |
| 2023 | $80.2M | $85.6M | $62M | $1.5M | — | -$49.1M |
| 2022 | $76.9M | $77.5M | $46.6M | $1.4M | — | -$43.7M |
| 2021 | $64.7M | $65.1M | $42.5M | $1.5M | $133K | -$43.1M |
| 2020 | $77.5M | $77.3M | $55.8M | $1.6M | $0 | -$16.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $16.2M from 14 charities:
- The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation$15.7M
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$103K
- The Joseph Lebovic Charitable Foundation$100K
- Trust Under The Will of Jeanne Yvonne Costello$63K
- The Peter and Melanie Munk Charitable Foundation$60K
- The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation$50K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$28K
- Hogarth Family Foundation$15K
- The DR. Wolf Lebovic Charitable Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,949
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,000
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$813
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$738
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $300,000–349,9994 positions
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions331
- Total compensation, all staff$45M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Meric Gertler (ex officio/trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Royal Ontario Museum’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 105248256RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.