Theatre Passe Muraille
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119214344RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,693,468) as filed with the CRA.
Theatre Passe Muraille is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 42% from government, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $142K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $7,174 in 2024, the largest being $7,174 to Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Theatre passe muraille (tpm) runs an annual season of 6 to 15 contemporary theatre productions. In addition tpm: - develops and supports artists and the creation of new plays while providing space to present this work to the public - produces all new canadian live theatre as well as digital media programming - works with actors writers directors designers stage managers and other artists - runs a multi-use facility dedicated to the arts - provides community box office services. - provides accessibility initiatives to audiences with accessibility needs (asl ad relaxed performanc…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.7M | $1.2M | $52K | $7,174 | $69K |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.6M | $1.1M | $28K | $1,999 | $347K |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1.3M | $851K | $22K | $7,060 | $616K |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.2M | $718K | $36K | $58K | $768K |
| 2020 | $1M | $947K | $596K | $32K | — | $437K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $7,174 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $142K from 10 charities:
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$36K
- Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario$29K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$19K
- Canadahelps Canadon$19K
- Community One Foundation$10K
- The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation$5,000
- The Guardian Project$2,500
- Lindy Green Family Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$29
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions14
- Total compensation, all staff$879K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ramsay Alwani (director); Jennifer Beer (director); Jeffrey Chan (chair); Jordan Crocker (secretary); Avinash D'Souza (director); Sandra Hawken (director); Roni Hoffman (director); Susan Moellers (director); Azeem Nathoo (director); Ljiljana Stanic (vice-chair); Lynn Stivaletti (director); Tyler Tong-McDermott (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Theatre Passe Muraille’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119214344RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.