The Toronto Symphony
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 105255335RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($34,214,022) as filed with the CRA.
The Toronto Symphony is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $34.3M in revenue and $34.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 22% from donations, 16% from government, 21% from other charities. In 2024, 57 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $7.2M.
Compared with 39 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 10% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 74 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1.6M in 2024, the largest being $1.6M to The Toronto Symphony Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) provides distinctive performances of both new and established orchestral music to internationally recognized standards and engages with communities in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond through performances education programs and partnerships. In 2023/2024 the TSO continued its dynamic programming with an exciting mix of classical popular film and education concerts at our home venue of Roy Thomson Hall as well as at the George Weston Recital Hall and the Rose Theatre in Brampton as well as a tour to Montreal’s Maison Symphonique and Canada’s Natio…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $34.3M | $34.2M | $21.7M | $2.3M | $1.6M | $865K |
| 2023 | $44.3M | $44.3M | $20.4M | $2.3M | $13.3M | $811K |
| 2022 | $27M | $26.1M | $16M | $1.7M | $2M | $781K |
| 2021 | $22.4M | $19.3M | $10.6M | $1.3M | $2M | -$120K |
| 2020 | $25.9M | $26.6M | $16M | $1.8M | $2M | -$3.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.6M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $7.2M from 57 charities:
- The Toronto Symphony Foundation$4.9M
- The Barrett Family Foundation$750K
- BenefAction Foundation$487K
- The Azrieli Foundation$100K
- Toronto Symphony Volunteer Committee$79K
- Gillespie Family Foundation$60K
- Canadahelps Canadon$57K
- Canadahelps Canadon$57K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$52K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$50K
- The McLean Foundation$40K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$32K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$30K
- The Fleck Family Foundation$30K
- The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation$25K
- The Whitmer Trudel Charitable Foundation$25K
- Holdbest Foundation$25K
- The Sixty Three Foundation$25K
- Strathfield Foundation$25K
- William Birchall Foundation$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$25K
- Aqueduct Foundation$24K
- Toronto Foundation$22K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$20K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$20K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $200,000–249,9993 positions
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions74
- Total compensation, all staff$7.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Catherine Beck (director); Doris Chan (director); Gilad Rom (director); Sharon Groom (director); Peter Hinman (director); Ross Kerr (director); Andrew Phillips (director); Noëlle Richardson (director); Thomas Smee (director); Mark Williams (ceo); Martha Durdin (director); Michael Lockhart (director); Debra Walker (director); Nichole Anderson Bergeron (director); The Hon. Elizabeth Dowdeswell (director); John Gerhardt (director); Helen Killoch (director); Justice Donald McLeod (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Toronto Symphony’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 105255335RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.