The Musical Stage Company
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 862044146RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,751,095) as filed with the CRA.
The Musical Stage Company 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 $1.5M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 35% from donations, 11% from government, 23% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $418K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $2.2M in 2020 to $1.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Produce mainstage musicals and digital concerts enriching the toronto arts scene. - offer ticket subsidies for students. - provide workshops to students at the performances and educational study guides. - offer a free training program for one month to youth aged 13-18 years old and bursaries and residencies to emerging artists. - work with canadian composers and playwrights on the creation of new musicals and commission original work.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.8M | $1.4M | $140K | — | $564K |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.9M | $1.6M | $143K | — | $850K |
| 2022 | $2.7M | $2.7M | $2.3M | $189K | — | $989K |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.2M | $1.1M | $42K | — | $777K |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $2M | $1.7M | $183K | $15K | $444K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $418K from 16 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$100K
- Canadahelps Canadon$100K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$40K
- Aubrey & Marla Dan Foundation$35K
- Aubrey & Marla Dan Foundation$28K
- Abundance Canada$26K
- The Krawczyk Family Foundation$25K
- RBC Foundation$15K
- The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation$15K
- The Lawrence Family Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$9,320
- BenefAction Foundation$5,750
- The Linda Frum & Howard Sokolowski Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$2,000
- Toronto Foundation$1,500
- The Peter and Eleanor Daniels Foundation$1,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$648K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alyse Dan (director); Patrick David (co-chair); Megan Deeks (co-chair); Anita Ferrari (director); Susan Garvie (director); David Kaplan (director); Paul Orlander (director); Tisha Rattos (director); Tania Senewiratne (director); Matthew Webster (director); Rhonda Zwingerman (secretary); Sarah Robertson (director); Nancy Webster (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Musical Stage Company’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 862044146RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.