The Canadian Art Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 132945908RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($12,527) as filed with the CRA.
The Canadian Art Foundation is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $21K in revenue and $13K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations, 67% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $14K.
Compared with 89 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 15 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $2M in 2020 to $21K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Continued assistance in print publishing and distributing Canadian Art magazine
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $21K | $13K | $8,527 | — | — | $35K |
| 2021 | $824K | $1.1M | $703K | $68K | — | $17K |
| 2020 | $2M | $2.1M | $1.6M | $157K | — | $210K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $14K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions15
- Total compensation, all staff$502K
Schedule 3 of its 2021 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephen Bulger (co-chair); Camille Georgeson-Usher (director); James Oscar (director); Jung-Suk Ryu (director); Rose-Anne Harder (director); Duane Jones (co-chair); Anais Kasongo (director); Kristina Sobstad (director); Wil Aballe (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Canadian Art Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132945908RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.