Small World Music Society
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 880787213RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-01-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,791,040) as filed with the CRA.
Small World Music Society is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. In its fiscal year ending January 31, 2024, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 36% from government, 13% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $110K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $626K in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Small world music's (swm) mission is to promote culturally diverse music activity in toronto by engaging audiences enabling artists and connecting industry -the organization and its various projects aim to provide equitable representation and opportunities for emerging newcomers refugee bipoc and 2slgbtq+ canadian artists and industry professionals.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.5M | $78K | — | $732K |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.5M | $86K | — | $725K |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.4M | $1.1M | $61K | — | $721K |
| 2021 | $1M | $752K | $611K | $39K | — | $331K |
| 2020 | $626K | $546K | $482K | $10K | — | $77K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $110K from 5 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
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$719K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ayesha Chatterjee (chair); Amber Joyce (director); Yuwen Huang (director); Das Vikramjit (treasurer); Mohamed Khimji (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Small World Music Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 880787213RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.