Shaw Festival Theatre Canada
Charitable organization · Niagara on the Lake, Ontario · BN 119147882RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($40,363,962) as filed with the CRA.
Shaw Festival Theatre Canada is a charitable organization based in Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $39.9M in revenue and $40.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 5% from government, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 62 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5.6M.
Compared with 39 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 113 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $100 in 2024, the largest being $100 to Shaw Festival Theatre Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $24.1M in 2020 to $39.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 22 names.
In its own words
Live repertory theatre inspired by the plays of george bernard shaw. The shaw festival produces plays from and about his era and contemporary plays and musicals that share shaw's provocative witty mischevious and iconoclastic exploration of society and celebration of humanity.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $39.9M | $40.4M | $30.8M | $2.8M | $200 | -$6.7M |
| 2023 | $37.6M | $44.1M | $34.7M | $2.9M | $600 | -$6.2M |
| 2022 | $36.6M | $37.8M | $29.6M | $2.3M | $12K | $158K |
| 2021 | $26.6M | $26.5M | $18.5M | $1.5M | $10K | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $24.1M | $23.9M | $17.1M | $1.3M | $75 | -$107K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $100 to 1 qualified donee:
- Shaw Festival Theatre Canada$100
Received $5.6M from 62 charities:
- Shaw Festival Theatre Endowment Foundation$2.4M
- Brookfield Partners Foundation$750K
- The Slaight Family Foundation$500K
- BenefAction Foundation$383K
- The Jim Meekison & Carolyn Keystone Foundation$275K
- Community Charitable Foundation$150K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$140K
- The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation$125K
- James A. Burton and Family Foundation$100K
- RBC Foundation$85K
- The Blue Lupin Foundation$50K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$43K
- Canada Gives$36K
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$35K
- Trust Under the Will of the Philip and Berthe Morton Foundation$35K
- Fondation Alex U. Soyka$29K
- Toronto Foundation$28K
- Abundance Canada$28K
- J & L Rogers Family Charitable Foundation$27K
- The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation$25K
- The Sixty Three Foundation$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$24K
- Oakville Community Foundation$19K
- Aqueduct Foundation$18K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over2 positions
- $160,000–199,9994 positions
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions113
- Total compensation, all staff$25M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Philip Akin (director); Glen Bandiera (director); Sylvia Bennett (director); Sheila Brown (director); Elizabeth Dipchand (director); Lyle Hall (director); Thomas Hyde (director); Peter Jewett (director); Robert Johnson (director); Ian Joseph (chair); Mary Mizen (ex officio); Timothy Price (vice-chair); Gregory Prince (treasurer); Corinne Rice (director); Robin Ridesic (director); Samiha Sachedina (director); Niclole Tzetzo (director); Jaime Watt (director); (director); Richard Ellis (director); Carolyn Keystone (director); Jodey Porter (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Shaw Festival Theatre Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119147882RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.