The National Ballet of Canada Endowment Foundation/la Fondation de la Dotation du Ballet National du Canada
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 889898722RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($4,983,544) as filed with the CRA.
The National Ballet of Canada Endowment Foundation/la Fondation de la Dotation du Ballet National du Canada is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $18.9M in revenue and $5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 31% from donations, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $54K.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 58% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $4.5M in 2024, the largest being $4.5M to The National Ballet of Canada / Le Ballet National du Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.8M in 2020 to $18.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The National Ballet of Canada Endowment Foundation supports the creation promotion presentation education and outreach of Ballet to Canadians through grants to The National Ballet of Canada.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $18.9M | $5M | — | — | $4.5M | $115.1M |
| 2023 | $19.1M | $4.1M | — | — | $3.8M | $101.2M |
| 2022 | -$7.1M | $5M | — | — | $4.7M | $86.1M |
| 2021 | $24.3M | $2.9M | — | — | $2.7M | $98.3M |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $3.9M | — | — | $3.7M | $76.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4.5M to 1 qualified donee:
- The National Ballet of Canada / Le Ballet National du Canada$4.5M
Received $54K from 9 charities:
- D & G Estey Family Foundation$15K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,807
- Peter Wood Family Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,662
- Flavelle Family Foundation$2,500
- Toronto Foundation$402
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$260
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Macdonald (chair); Ed Esposto (director); Krista Kerr (director); Sue Matthews (director); Amanda Ram (treasurer); John Braive (director); Sarah Aves (director); Karen Kain C.C. (director emerita); Raghunath Davloor (director); Cheryl Ferguson (director); Hope Muir (vice president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The National Ballet of Canada Endowment Foundation/la Fondation de la Dotation du Ballet National du Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889898722RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.