Scarborough Arts
Publicly funded institution · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 132689704RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($768,009) as filed with the CRA.
Scarborough Arts is a charitable organization based in Scarborough, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $811K in revenue and $768K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from government, 11% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $77K.
Compared with 355 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 77% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $418K in 2020 to $811K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Promotes and encourages the development of the arts and culture programs initiatives events and advocacy activities in the local scarborough community. - programs include: annual juried art exhibitions and shows; community arts programs and events including trainings skill-building workshops and professional development opportunities for underrepresented and underserved artists and community members; online / in-person hybrid programming in response to covid-19 to address barriers of isolation loneliness and adverse mental health effects/affects in local community and exacerbated by the…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $811K | $768K | $512K | $8,153 | — | $282K |
| 2023 | $738K | $787K | $542K | $7,276 | — | $240K |
| 2022 | $601K | $559K | $337K | $3,997 | — | $289K |
| 2021 | $672K | $499K | $320K | $807 | — | $247K |
| 2020 | $418K | $377K | $227K | $9,086 | — | $74K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $77K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$362K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Amer Al-Shaar (treasurer); Mathura Karunanithy (director); Jason Liang (director); Suman Roy (chair); Rodney Yip (director); Johnny Zhang (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Scarborough Arts’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132689704RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.