Thousand Islands Foundation for the Performing Arts
Charitable organization · Gananoque, Ontario · BN 888156247RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,422,171) as filed with the CRA.
Thousand Islands Foundation for the Performing Arts is a charitable organization based in Gananoque, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.6M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 11% from government. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $101K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 96% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 75% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $172K in 2020 to $3.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Professional theatre activities youth theatre workshops playwright development workshops
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.6M | $3.4M | $3.3M | $34K | — | $341K |
| 2023 | $3.3M | $3.2M | $3.1M | $31K | — | $200K |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $3M | $2.8M | $1,909 | — | $141K |
| 2021 | $2M | $1.8M | $1.7M | — | — | -$537K |
| 2020 | $172K | $301K | $178K | — | — | $309K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $101K from 9 charities:
- Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario$56K
- United Way of Leeds and Grenville$14K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$13K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,100
- BenefAction Foundation$5,500
- WCPD Foundation$4,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,746
- The Davies Charitable Foundation Inc.$500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$208
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
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lynda Garrah (member); Robert Gibbins (treasurer); Diane Kelly (member); Catherine Macdonald (member); Steven Tanner (chair); Elizabeth Hart (member); Neil McCarney (member); Anne Cinzar Dalton (member); Charlotte Patterson (member); Lois Lorimer Nunn (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Thousand Islands Foundation for the Performing Arts’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888156247RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.