Toronto Animated Image Society
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 852359538RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($167,172) as filed with the CRA.
Toronto Animated Image Society is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. 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 April 30, 2024, it reported $170K in revenue and $167K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $374.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 13% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS) is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to exploring and promoting the art of independent animation through production screenings workshops and exhibitions. As an artist-run non-profit production centre TAIS supports animation art marking with a focus on skills development. TAIS provides affordable access to studios and equipment for artists and hold regular community-based and educational workshop programs. Memberships include classical and digital handdrawn stop motion 3D and VR Animators who work in narrative and/or experimental fo…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $170K | $167K | $100K | — | — | $76K |
| 2023 | $172K | $189K | — | — | — | $74K |
| 2022 | $160K | $190K | $108K | — | — | $90K |
| 2021 | $158K | $133K | — | — | — | $105K |
| 2020 | $138K | $136K | $78K | — | — | $80K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $374 from 2 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
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$57K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tobias Williams (director); Aisha Ibrahim (president); Veronica Ladico (treasurer); Isaac King (vice president); Oshini Wanigasekera (director); Martha Grant (director); Rebecca O'Neil (secretary); Una Di Gallo (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Toronto Animated Image Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 852359538RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.