The Windsor Symphony Society
Charitable organization · Windsor, Ontario · BN 119300218RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,053,493) as filed with the CRA.
The Windsor Symphony Society is a charitable organization based in Windsor, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $3.2M in revenue and $3.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 33% from donations, 18% from government, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $422K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 66% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 81% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 16 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $50 in 2024, the largest being $50 to The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2M in 2020 to $3.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The Windsor Symphony Society continues to present live concerts at the Capitol Theatre Windsor as well as in the surrounding counties. In addition outreach activities such as in-school educational concerts have continued. The WSO continues to operate the Windsor Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Windsor Community Orchestra.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.2M | $3.1M | $2.6M | $999K | $50 | -$44K |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $2.5M | $2.2M | $74K | $100 | -$190K |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $2.1M | $1.8M | $66K | $1,455 | -$191K |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.6M | $1.4M | $64K | $455 | -$31K |
| 2020 | $2M | $2M | $1.8M | $76K | — | -$193K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $50 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $422K from 14 charities:
- Windsoressex Community Foundation$135K
- Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario$63K
- The Bill and Rochelle Tepperman Foundation$50K
- Solcz Family Foundation$30K
- The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation$28K
- The Windsor Symphony Orchestra Guild$25K
- The Toldo Foundation$25K
- The Basilian Fathers of Sandwich in Ontario$15K
- The Chandisherry Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$13K
- The Charles and Ethel Cohen Family Foundation$10K
- Toronto Foundation$6,300
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,339
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- $1–39,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions16
- Total compensation, all staff$781K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Deborah Severs (president); Jennifer McKim (past president); Susan McKee (secretary); Lynn Baker (director); Kyle Kootstra (director); Ken Montgomery (director); Lee Watson (director); Henry Dupuis (director); Andrew Gesner; Gregory Turner; Alycia Sennema.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Windsor Symphony Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119300218RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.