Soulpepper Theatre Company
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 869698449RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,543,078) as filed with the CRA.
Soulpepper Theatre Company is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $7.2M in revenue and $7.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 20% from government, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 35 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.4M.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 29 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $636K in 2024, the largest being $636K to GBSP Centre Corp.. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 20 names.
In its own words
Producing and /or presenting theatre productions; Providing training and teaching of theatre and related arts to theatre professionals and practitioners; Developing and delivering student mentorship and community outreach programmes in theatre and related arts; Cooperating with and working in conjunction with artistic educational and charitable institutions organizations and facilities in the production development study and application of performance training and teaching of theatre and related arts; Producing programs and materials directly related to the charitable objects for presenta…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.2M | $7.5M | $5M | $381K | $636K | -$890K |
| 2023 | $8.1M | $9M | $6M | $512K | $713K | -$497K |
| 2022 | $7.2M | $8.2M | $5.3M | $551K | $611K | $415K |
| 2021 | $7.2M | $5.1M | $3M | $430K | $503K | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $5.6M | $6M | $3.7M | $357K | $456K | -$798K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $636K to 1 qualified donee:
- GBSP Centre Corp.$636K
Received $1.4M from 35 charities:
- Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario$338K
- The Slaight Family Foundation$200K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$200K
- SMGS Family Foundation$110K
- RBC Foundation$100K
- Kingfisher Foundation$70K
- Aqueduct Foundation$48K
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$40K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$39K
- The Polar Foundation$37K
- BenefAction Foundation$29K
- The Keg Spirit Foundation$25K
- Lindy Green Family Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$18K
- Paul Barber Foundation$17K
- The McLean Foundation$15K
- The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation$10K
- Toronto Foundation$10K
- Pitblado Foundation$10K
- The Sabourin Family Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$9,985
- The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation$6,000
- Externalitator Foundation$6,000
- The Bulmash-Siegel Private Foundation$6,000
- The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions29
- Total compensation, all staff$3.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dana Lafarga (director); Robin Cardozo (chair); Maureen Dodig (director); Beverley Flynn (director); James O'Sullivan (director); Sanjay Nakra (director); Melissa Kennedy (director); Martha Tory (director); Alan Walker (director); Nick Chambers (director); Maja Neable (director); Alicia Rose (director); Anil Mohan (director); Aaron Sanderson (director); Cindy Tripp (director); Judith John (director); Julia Foster (director); Karey Lunau (director); Sarika Gundu (director); Yasmin Warsame (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Soulpepper Theatre Company’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 869698449RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.