Tirgan Centre for Art and Culture
Charitable organization · North York, Ontario · BN 852053610RR0001 · Education in the Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($509,936) as filed with the CRA.
Tirgan Centre for Art and Culture is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $644K in revenue and $510K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 38% from donations, 21% from government. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $56K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 45% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The objective of the organization are to promote and enhance cross-cultural harmony in order to advance tolerance understand-ing and goodwill among all segments of the canadian multi-cultural mosaic and to celebrate iranian artistic expression and cul-tural heritage in canadian society. The organization produces organizes and presents cultural programs and cultural festivals toshowcase various aspects of iranian cultural heritage and contemporary iranian artistic expression.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $644K | $510K | $409K | $29K | — | -$30K |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $2.2M | $2M | $127K | — | -$164K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $931K | $153K | — | $401K |
| 2021 | $843K | $615K | $445K | $66K | — | $322K |
| 2020 | $570K | $401K | $267K | $55K | — | $94K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $56K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$143K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mehrdad Ariannejad (president); Ali Nakhaiezadeh (treasurer); Maryam Ghiai (board member); Houshang Shans (board member); Saviz Arzandeh (board member); Mahboob Bolandi (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Tirgan Centre for Art and Culture’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 852053610RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.