Tapestry Music Theatre
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119208619RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,227,999) as filed with the CRA.
Tapestry Music Theatre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 28% from donations, 37% from government, 20% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $336K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Tapestry is dedicated to the development and performance of music theatre in all its aspects. To that end it commissions new works and arrangements from prominent canadian composers and writers.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $792K | $165K | — | $616K |
| 2023 | $2M | $2M | $1.4M | $154K | — | $589K |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $978K | $138K | — | $649K |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.2M | $511K | $143K | — | $642K |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.2M | $386K | $70K | $278K | $476K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $336K from 12 charities:
- The Clearview Foundation$165K
- The Azrieli Foundation$75K
- Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario$52K
- The Frank H Hori Charitable Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$11K
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$2,500
- Nightwood Theatre Company$2,000
- Toronto Foundation$1,091
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$877
- The Victoria Foundation$500
- BenefAction Foundation$250
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
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$564K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Chimemwe Alao (director); Brian Dawson (chair); Ben Dietschi (director); Michael Ford (treasurer); Ellen Karp (director); Ali Kashani (director); Susan Salek (director); Juliette Sweeney (director); Isabelle Savoie (director); Jen McGillvray (director); Claire Hopkinson (vice chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Tapestry Music Theatre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119208619RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.