Toronto Festival of Arts Culture and Creativity
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 811637347RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,095,656) as filed with the CRA.
Toronto Festival of Arts Culture and Creativity is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under 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 July 31, 2024, it reported $6.1M in revenue and $6.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 70% from government, 14% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $628K.
Compared with 90 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 88% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 21 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 20 names.
In its own words
The festival operating under the trade name Luminato presents an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival in Toronto each June. We present both free and ticketed events in theatre classical and contemporary music dance and visual arts by Canadian and internationally acclaimed artists. We commission artists to develop new artistic work to present at the festival and encourage them to explore new avenues by collaborating with other artists and other genres to augment their work. We present a comprehensive program of lectures workshops and panels to enhance the audiences' experience and u…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.1M | $6.1M | $3.8M | $847K | — | $625K |
| 2023 | $6.5M | $6.4M | $4M | $975K | — | $483K |
| 2022 | $9.4M | $9.8M | $6.5M | $945K | — | $402K |
| 2021 | $4.2M | $3.8M | $1.7M | $563K | $350 | $77K |
| 2020 | $4.3M | $3.8M | $1.5M | $624K | — | $58K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $628K from 22 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$115K
- Makeway Foundation$100K
- The Delaney Family Foundation$100K
- The Azrieli Foundation$55K
- Larry And Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation$50K
- The Michael Young Family Foundation$50K
- The Sabourin Family Foundation$25K
- The Canavan Family Foundation$20K
- The Bennett Family Foundation$20K
- S.M. Blair Family Foundation$15K
- Partners in Art$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Lindy Green Family Foundation$10K
- Kingfisher Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$6,000
- The Clearview Foundation$5,000
- The K M Hunter Charitable Foundation$5,000
- McLean Smits Family Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$1,500
- Hamilton Community Foundation$650
- Mobile Giving Foundation Canada$40
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions21
- Total compensation, all staff$2.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Antonio Gagliano (director); Helen Burstyn (director); Krystal Abotossaway (director); Celia Smith (chief executive officer); David Simmonds (director); Douglas Knight (chair); Carol Wilding (director); Jonathon Redbird (director); Marcia McNabb (corporate secretary); Judy Matthews (director); maxine bailey (director vice-chair); Paul Boniferro (director); Laurissa Canavan (director); Michaëlle Jean (director); Mitchell Marcus (director); Jason Ryle (director); Jennifer Laidlaw (director); John Monahan (director); Ravi Jain (director); Linda Chu (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Toronto Festival of Arts Culture and Creativity’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 811637347RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.