The National Ballet of Canada/le Ballet National du Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119051449RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($850,000) as filed with the CRA.
The National Ballet of Canada/le Ballet National du Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $40.8M in revenue and $850K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations, 17% from government, 19% from other charities. In 2024, 78 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4.2M.
Compared with 39 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 97% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 80 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $850K in 2024, the largest being $850K to The National Ballet of Canada Endowment Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 20 names.
In its own words
The National Ballet of Canada is Canada's largest dance company and one of the world's top international ballet organizations. Ongoing programs include our annual series of performances at the Four Seasons Centre in Toronto consisting of full-length and mixed-length repertoire. The 2023/24 season included live performance at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts with 10 productions presenting 91 performances to over 168 000 audience members. The Ballet is committed to making the arts more accessible and connecting with different communities to promote movement imagination creat…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $40.8M | $850K | $33.3M | $3.1M | $850K | $6.9M |
| 2023 | $38.7M | $38.7M | $31.9M | $3M | — | — |
| 2022 | $37.5M | $37.1M | $30.6M | $2.7M | — | $6.7M |
| 2021 | $23.8M | $21.8M | $16.7M | $1.8M | $0 | $9M |
| 2020 | $32.8M | $33.1M | $27.3M | $2.6M | — | $8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $850K to 1 qualified donee:
- The National Ballet of Canada Endowment Foundation$850K
Received $4.2M from 78 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1.2M
- The Joan and Jerry Lozinski Foundation$550K
- LRDR Foundation$285K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$250K
- Arrell Family Foundation$250K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$178K
- The Volunteer Committee The National Ballet of Canada$150K
- THE IRA GLUSKIN AND MAXINE GRANOVSKY GLUSKIN CHARITABLE FOUNdation$125K
- The Slaight Family Foundation$100K
- The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation$100K
- RBC Foundation$100K
- The Blidner Family Foundation$100K
- The Azrieli Foundation$80K
- The Sabourin Family Foundation$50K
- Hal Jackman Foundation$50K
- Aqueduct Foundation$47K
- Dream Community Foundation$36K
- The H. John McDonald Foundation$35K
- The McLean Foundation$35K
- Toronto Foundation$29K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$29K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$25K
- La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso$25K
- The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation$25K
- The Davies Charitable Foundation Inc.$25K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over2 positions
- $250,000–299,9992 positions
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions80
- Total compensation, all staff$23.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Bailey (director); Raghunath Davloor (chair); Flora Do (director); Nichole Anderson Bergeron (director); Nancy Holland (director); Krista Kerr (director); Jen Lee Koss (director); David Macdonald (director); Gretchen Ross (director); John Simcoe (director); Laura Dinner (director); Sonja Berman (director); Geoff Bertram (director); Ferguson Cheryl (director); Fatima Laher (director); David Seville (director); Alexander Younger (director); Eunice Lumsden (director); Lisa Conway (director); Rochelle de Goias-Jackman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The National Ballet of Canada/le Ballet National du Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119051449RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.