The Carol Shields Prize Foundation
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 749619094RR0001 · Education in the Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($860,946) as filed with the CRA.
The Carol Shields Prize Foundation is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $636K in revenue and $861K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from donations. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $189K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $17K in 2024, the largest being $11K to Diaspora Dialogues Charitable Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $83K in 2020 to $636K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
1) to advance the public's appreciation and the participation of women in the literacy arts by establishing and administering a periodic award to promote high-quality works of literature by women in north america; providing publicly available scholarships bursaries and other forms of financial assistance to women writers to support the production of high-quality literacy works; offering mentoring programs for women in the literary arts; and offering seminars conferences and workshops on a variety of topics related to women in literature for the benefit of women writers and the g…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $636K | $861K | $708K | $56K | $17K | $443K |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $790K | $672K | $48K | $13K | $667K |
| 2022 | $328K | $140K | $84K | $13K | — | $373K |
| 2021 | $131K | $47K | $40K | — | — | $182K |
| 2020 | $83K | $50K | $45K | — | — | $97K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $17K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $189K from 9 charities:
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
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$175K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Helen Burstyn (director); Charlotte Gray (secretary); Julie Jacobson (chair); Sari Morrison (treasurer); Natasha Trethewey (director); Tracy Van Straaten (director); Emma Ruby-Sachs (vice-chair); Sheila Roche (director); Shauna Singh Baldwin (director); Emma Eisendrath (director); Jamie Figueroa (director); Kimberley Goode (director); Leigh Haber (director); Patrick Manley (director); Noreen Tomassi (director); Ian Williams (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Carol Shields Prize Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 749619094RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.