Shaw Festival Theatre Endowment Foundation
Public foundation · Niagara-ON-The-Lake, Ontario · BN 897237806RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,432,486) as filed with the CRA.
Shaw Festival Theatre Endowment Foundation is a public foundation based in Niagara-ON-The-Lake, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.9M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from government, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $42K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 54% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 97% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $2.4M in 2024, the largest being $2.4M to Shaw Festival Theatre Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The foundation objects are to receive hold and maintain one or more funds and to transfer from time to time all or part of the income therefrom and the capital thereof (unless endowed by the contributor) for the benefit of the shaw festival theatre canada. Distributions are made in accordance with the foundations statement of investment policy and procedures and donor intentions.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.9M | $2.4M | $0 | $324K | $2.1M | $39M |
| 2023 | $4.9M | $4.3M | — | $332K | $4M | $36.5M |
| 2022 | -$413K | $2.8M | — | $319K | $2.5M | $36M |
| 2021 | $7.3M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.2M | $34.3M |
| 2020 | $4.8M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.2M | $33.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.4M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $42K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lorne Barclay (vice-chair); Richard Falconer (director); Kenneth Friedman (director); Anthony Graham (chair); Timothy Jennings (secretary); Colleen Johnston (director); Peter Nesbitt (director); Andrew Pringle (director); Roy Reeves (treasurer); William Saunderson (director); Bruce Winter (director); Samiha SaChedina (director); Bo Wang-Frape (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Shaw Festival Theatre Endowment Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 897237806RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.