The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Publicly funded institution · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 107579674RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,478,669) as filed with the CRA.
The Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 $1.5M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 57% from government, 6% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $145K.
Compared with 276 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
KWAG is Waterloo Region's leading public art gallery connecting people and ideas through art with a focus on the best of contemporary culture. For the benefit of current and future generations the Gallery collects preserves researches interprets and exhibits the visual arts and offers dynamic public programming relating to the visual arts all with a view to inspiring creativity and an appreciation of the visual arts in the Region. Established in 1956 and incorporated in 1968 KWAG is a non-profit organization open to the public and administered in the public trust. The Gallery emphasize…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.2M | $140K | — | $423K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.1M | $176K | — | $421K |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1.1M | $130K | — | $375K |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $991K | $117K | — | $320K |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.1M | $100K | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $145K from 9 charities:
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$70K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$39K
- Astley Family Foundation$17K
- Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario$6,140
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,233
- The Stonefields Foundation$2,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,487
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$773K
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 Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107579674RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.