The Coal Mine Theatre
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 809684525RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,255,745) as filed with the CRA.
The Coal Mine Theatre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 43% from donations, 10% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $492K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 62% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 86% of that peer group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $550K in 2020 to $1.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Organization operates a theatre which produces live performances annually. Each production runs for approximately three-four weeks of performances with approximately four weeks of preparation per show. Every show uses its own team of producers designers actors and stage management with an engagement period for each production of six-eight weeks. Organization also produces workshops to develop new new works. Workshops runs for approximately one to two weeks and engage actors directors stage managers for an engagement period of one to two weeks.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1.1M | $13K | — | $440K |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1M | $768K | $15K | — | $311K |
| 2022 | $604K | $625K | $534K | $4,058 | — | $246K |
| 2021 | $396K | $275K | $181K | $1,618 | — | $267K |
| 2020 | $550K | $513K | $445K | $5,544 | — | $139K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $492K from 16 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$163K
- Canadahelps Canadon$163K
- Abundance Canada$81K
- Toronto Foundation$21K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$10K
- Remembering Otto and Marie Pick Charitable Foundation$10K
- Kingfisher Foundation$10K
- The Scott Griffin Foundation$10K
- The Chawkers foundation$5,000
- Canada Gives$5,000
- The Bulmash-Siegel Private Foundation$5,000
- The Peter and Eleanor Daniels Foundation$2,500
- The Audrey Loeb and David Ross Foundation$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,968
- The Grech Urquhart Foundation$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$250
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Eli Taylor (director); Diana Bentley (director); Theodore Dykstra (director); Brett Ledger (director); Rena Bedard (director); Natalie Herbert (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Coal Mine Theatre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 809684525RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.