The Essential Collective Theatre Company
Publicly funded institution · ST Catharines, Ontario · BN 844082321RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($62,086) as filed with the CRA.
The Essential Collective Theatre Company is a charitable organization based in ST Catharines, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $62K in revenue and $62K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $144.
Compared with 673 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 9% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Essential colllective theatre (ect) is a professional theatre company that produces contemporary canadian plays for adult audiences and offers outreach programs for youth and seniors in niagara. Ect develops 2 new scripts per year and produces 2 professional productions
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $62K | $62K | $23K | — | — | -$164K |
| 2023 | $71K | $96K | $96K | — | — | -$104K |
| 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | $104K | $87K | $57K | — | — | -$845 |
| 2020 | $89K | $94K | $66K | — | — | -$18K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $144 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$41K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Cindy Goldrick (board chair); Kevin Hobbs (director); Miao Zhang (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Essential Collective Theatre Company’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 844082321RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.