The Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 892904368RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($12,538,743) as filed with the CRA.
The Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $26.9M in revenue and $12.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $48K.
Compared with 74 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 67% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $11.7M in 2024, the largest being $11.7M to Art Gallery of Ontario. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $9.1M in 2020 to $26.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 17 names.
In its own words
To provide assistance to the art gallery of ontario
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $26.9M | $12.5M | — | — | $11.7M | $139.7M |
| 2023 | $15.4M | $7.9M | — | — | $7.1M | $125.3M |
| 2022 | -$3.1M | $3.8M | — | — | $3.1M | $117.8M |
| 2021 | $20.6M | $3.5M | — | — | $2.7M | $124.8M |
| 2020 | $9.1M | $6.1M | — | — | $5.6M | $107.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $11.7M to 1 qualified donee:
- Art Gallery of Ontario$11.7M
Received $48K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sonja Berman (trustee); Daniel Abichandani (trustee); Sunir Chandaria (trustee); Anne Mette De Place Filippini (trustee); David Fleck (trustee); Angela Feldman (trustee); Leslie Gales (trustee); Heather Gotlieb (trustee); Lynn Factor (trustee); Susan Niczowski (trustee); Tyler Macnamara (trustee); Som Seif (trustee); Gale Kelly (trustee); Gale Kelly (chair); Andrew Garrett (trustee); Kristine Medeiros (treasurer); Erin Prendergast (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892904368RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.