Thunder Bay Art Gallery
Publicly funded institution · Thunder Bay, Ontario · BN 119259059RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,262,574) as filed with the CRA.
Thunder Bay Art Gallery is a charitable organization based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 58% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $124K.
Compared with 276 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band).
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Providing facilities for display of items of historic education and artistic value. Purchasing pieces of art for display. Providing art classes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $1.3M | — | $51K | $348K | $0 |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $166K | $11K | — | $322K |
| 2022 | $1.3M | — | $1M | $696 | — | $5M |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.3M | — | — | — | $241K |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.1M | $876K | $2,175 | — | $233K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $124K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Total compensation, all staff$721K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Christine Bates; Marty Mascarin; Mark Nisenholt; Mitchell Malcolm; John Hodson; Kevin Cleghorn; Gavin Nelson; Tammy Squitti; Larry Watral; Lesley Bell; Brenda Mason (directors); Shawn Bell (director); Bev Sabourin (director); Shelley Crawford (director); Sam Shahsahabi (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Thunder Bay Art Gallery’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119259059RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.