The Toronto International Festival of Authors
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 881940985RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,047,871) as filed with the CRA.
The Toronto International Festival of Authors is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.3M in revenue and $3M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 34% from government, 43% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $104K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 45% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Please visit our website https://festivalofauthors.ca
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $3M | $2.4M | $79K | — | -$684K |
| 2023 | $2.8M | $3.1M | $2.4M | $75K | — | $95K |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $2.1M | $1.6M | $59K | — | $418K |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $2M | $1.5M | $59K | — | $150K |
| 2020 | $2.9M | $3M | $2.4M | $58K | — | -$69K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $104K from 18 charities:
- The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation$25K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- The Ouellette Family Foundation$10K
- The Thor E and Nicole Eaton Family Charitable Foundation$10K
- The McLean Foundation$10K
- The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation$5,000
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$5,000
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$5,000
- The Henry White Kinnear Foundation$5,000
- Cidel Foundation$5,000
- Toronto Foundation$3,155
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,036
- Aqueduct Foundation$3,000
- Butterfield Family Foundation$1,500
- The Rotman Family Foundation$1,000
- Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan Family Foundation$1,000
- WCPD Foundation$1,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$96
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$953K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alexander Baillie (president); Harriet Lewis (vice president & secretary); Cathy Loblaw (director); Gail Appel (director); Iris Tupholme (director); Shagorika Easwar (director); John Macfarlane (director); Beth Nowers (director); Heather Conway (director); Stewart Nalini (treasurer); Malcolm McLean (director); Cody Caetano (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Toronto International Festival of Authors’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 881940985RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.