The Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119228633RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($34,662,720) as filed with the CRA.
The Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $34.3M in revenue and $34.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $868K.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 22% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 84 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $43K in 2024, the largest being $43K to The Roy Thomson Hall and Massey Hall Foundation.
In its own words
The objectives of the 'Corporation' are for charitable purposes: A) To advance the knowledge and appreciation of and to stimulate interest in the arts generally and music in particular by performance and otherwise; B) to advance the development of the performing arts in Canada; C) to provide opportunities for Canadian artistic talent; and D) to provide own and operate facilities and services for the purposes referred to in the above including but not limited to the halls known as Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall. The Corporation owns and operates two premier concert halls in Canada -…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $34.3M | $34.7M | $27.6M | $669K | $43K | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $36.8M | $33.7M | $21.7M | $704K | $30K | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $47M | $26.5M | $16.1M | $594K | $23K | $4.1M |
| 2021 | $49.8M | $12.6M | — | — | $18K | $7.8M |
| 2020 | $40M | $19.9M | $16.5M | $821K | $17K | $9.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $43K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $868K from 23 charities:
- Brookfield Partners Foundation$250K
- The Joseph & Antoinette Sorbara Charitable Foundation$100K
- Edwards Charitable Foundation$80K
- Canada Gives$53K
- The H. John McDonald Foundation$50K
- The Lewitt Family Foundation$50K
- Lynwood Family Foundation$50K
- The Roy Thomson Hall and Massey Hall Foundation$43K
- The Sixty Three Foundation$29K
- The Veritas Foundation/La Fondation Veritas$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$22K
- Abundance Canada$20K
- The Gordon and Lorraine Gibson Family Foundation$20K
- Barry and Laurie Green Family Charitable Trust$20K
- The Graham Burton Foundation$13K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$10K
- The Midloch Foundation$10K
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund$7,500
- The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- Conam Charitable Foundation$2,937
- The Sarah McLachlan Foundation$2,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,683
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions84
- Total compensation, all staff$14.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119228633RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.