Sistema Toronto Academy
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 819256603RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,524,578) as filed with the CRA.
Sistema Toronto Academy is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations, 6% from government, 58% from other charities. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $824K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 102 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
To promote positive social change through music education and appreciation of the arts to young people by providing menoring programs workshops and siminars concert events and festivals as well as an ongoing nutition program.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.5M | $1M | $30K | — | $636K |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $969K | $25K | — | $743K |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $526K | $4,340 | — | $690K |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $976K | $441K | $18K | — | $635K |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $570K | $3,746 | — | $265K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $824K from 21 charities:
- The Azrieli Foundation$235K
- Canadahelps Canadon$99K
- Canadahelps Canadon$99K
- Aubrey & Marla Dan Foundation$85K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$60K
- Toronto Foundation$51K
- The Kiwanis Club of Toronto Foundation$50K
- Mackenzie Investments Charitable Foundation$26K
- Grapes for Humanity$25K
- Tippet Foundation$20K
- JTC Heersink Foundation$20K
- BenefAction Foundation$17K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$11K
- Oakville Community Foundation$7,500
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$5,000
- The McLean Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,527
- Mazon Canada$3,100
- Plusoneplusone Canada$1,803
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$1,000
- The Rogan Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions102
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Karim Kanji (director); Zanana Akande (director); Scott Mackenzie (director); Marcia Brown (chair person); Philip John William Doyle (treasurer); Brainerd Blyden-Taylor (director); Varga Mirzaagha (director); Philomen Davis (director); Christie Gray (director); Sabrina Marks (director); Anne Mbuthia (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sistema Toronto Academy’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 819256603RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.