School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 827301672RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($592,623) as filed with the CRA.
School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $570K in revenue and $593K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 12% from government. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $52K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 71% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
SPAO is primarily operated as a full-time vocational college diploma program (the Photographic Arts and Production Program) for which we are a registered Private Career College through the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development. In service of our primary function SPAO also generates revenue through fundraising as well as other non-vocational educational offerings in photography and the photographic arts which include part-time classes workshops private mentoring free classes for youth and an artist residency. We also distribute bursaries and awards supporting photographic …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $570K | $593K | $554K | $5,124 | — | $134K |
| 2023 | $588K | $616K | $573K | $5,323 | $0 | $157K |
| 2022 | $458K | $534K | $502K | $4,633 | $0 | $194K |
| 2021 | $467K | $507K | $476K | $1,513 | $0 | $280K |
| 2020 | $424K | $309K | $286K | $1,233 | — | $320K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $52K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$370K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Terrence Blake (treasurer); William Palamar (secretary); Jonathan Hobin (ex-officio); Patrick Gauch (chair); Evelyn Duberry (director); Timothy Jones (director); Alexia Wilkinson-Naidoo (director); Rémi Thériault (director); Alexandre Talavera (director); Tania Passafiume (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 827301672RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.