The Arquives: Canada's Queer Archives
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118832864RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,039,815) as filed with the CRA.
The Arquives: Canada's Queer Archives is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations, 13% from government, 9% from other charities. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $141K.
Compared with 414 public-amenity 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 position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $666K in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Our primary mandate is to collect and maintain information related to lgbtq2+ life in canada. We gather material on people organizations issues and events. We arrange the material record it store it and secure it for the future.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1M | $611K | $117K | — | $4.4M |
| 2023 | $924K | $970K | $561K | $105K | — | $4M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $827K | $472K | $91K | — | $4M |
| 2021 | $902K | $657K | $380K | $65K | — | $4M |
| 2020 | $666K | $615K | $361K | $82K | — | $3.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $141K from 17 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$52K
- Canadahelps Canadon$52K
- The 519 Church Street Community Centre$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- The K M Hunter Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,024
- The Newall Family Foundation$2,500
- The JTMH Family Foundation$2,500
- The Veritas Foundation/La Fondation Veritas$1,500
- R&M Lang Foundation$1,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$842
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$402
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$260
- The Calgary Foundation$250
- United Way of Greater Moncton and Southeastern New Brunswick Region Inc.\centraide de la Region du Grand Moncton et du Sud Est du Nouveau-New Brunswick Inc.$90
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$43
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$25
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$616K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Deslauriers (treasurer); Kelvin Kung (director); Mark Lipton (director); Courtnay McFarlane (co-president); Lucas Wilson (director); Lisa Freedman (secretary); Terra Gillespie (director); Jacqueline Murray (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Arquives: Canada's Queer Archives’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118832864RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.