The Bentway Conservancy
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 752175299RR0001 · Public Amenities
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,908,436) as filed with the CRA.
The Bentway Conservancy is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $5.2M in revenue and $5.9M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 44% from donations, 33% from government, 13% from other charities. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.5M.
Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 23 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.4M in 2020 to $5.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Commissioning producing and presenting installations: working with professional artists to create rotating multi-artist exhibitions across the site that invite artists to adapt existing and/or create new work - Commissioning producing and presenting performance projects: working with professional artists to develop new outdoor presentations in dance theatre music etc. often site-specific in nature - Artist residency: an annual program to advance site-specific experimentation and artist development via a long-term engagement with our space - Signature public art projects: larger-scale ar…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.2M | $5.9M | — | $106K | — | $671K |
| 2023 | $6M | $5.9M | $2.9M | $147K | — | $3M |
| 2022 | $4.2M | $4M | $2M | $98K | — | $1.5M |
| 2021 | $3.9M | $3.6M | $3.3M | $34K | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $3.4M | $2.9M | $950K | $41K | — | $957K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.5M from 21 charities:
- Judy and Wilmot Matthews Foundation$705K
- Balsam Foundation$235K
- THE IRA GLUSKIN AND MAXINE GRANOVSKY GLUSKIN CHARITABLE FOUNdation$143K
- Arrell Family Foundation$50K
- Dream Community Foundation$50K
- Dattels Family Foundation (Canada)$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$25K
- Hal Jackman Foundation$25K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$25K
- Conam Charitable Foundation$15K
- RBC Foundation$15K
- Partners in Art$15K
- Mauer-Sheiner Foundation$10K
- Toronto Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$10K
- The Ouellette Family Foundation$10K
- The K M Hunter Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$20
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions23
- Total compensation, all staff$2.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Daniel Shearer (board chair); Wilmot Matthews (director); Raja Khanna (director); Barbara Macdonald (director); Drew Sinclair (director); Gabe Gonda (director); Jane Pepino (director); Judy Matthews (emeritus); Ken Greenberg (emeritus); Mark Keil (treasurer); Mary Rowe (director); Ann Bowman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Bentway Conservancy’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 752175299RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.