Toronto International Film Festival Inc.
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119304541RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($45,183,822) as filed with the CRA.
Toronto International Film Festival Inc. is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $45.6M in revenue and $45.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 15% from government. In 2024, 27 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.2M.
Compared with 39 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 21% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 77% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 155 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $26.3M in 2020 to $45.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
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Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $45.6M | $45.2M | $34.3M | $3.8M | — | $68.1M |
| 2023 | $39.6M | $49.5M | $32.7M | $4.8M | — | $67.8M |
| 2022 | $48.6M | $43.4M | $28.9M | $3.8M | — | $77.6M |
| 2021 | $29.6M | $27.5M | $16.7M | $1.9M | — | $72.5M |
| 2020 | $26.3M | $27.8M | $15.1M | $2.3M | — | $70.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.2M from 27 charities:
- Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario$342K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$155K
- RBC Foundation$150K
- The Bennett Family Foundation$100K
- The David Family Foundation$88K
- Aqueduct Foundation$83K
- The Budman Family Foundation$60K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$33K
- Room Women's Foundation$27K
- Abundance Canada$27K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$23K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$20K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$20K
- The Micki Moore Foundation$20K
- The Egan Family Foundation$15K
- Nicol Family Foundation$13K
- Cidel Foundation$13K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$10K
- Makeway Foundation$10K
- Toronto Foundation$5,660
- WCPD Foundation$5,075
- The Janice Lewis and Mitchell Cohen Foundation$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,160
- The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation$2,500
- The Sapna Family Foundation$2,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $250,000–299,9992 positions
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions155
- Total compensation, all staff$22.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Chisholm (director); Donette Chin-Loy Chang (director); Asha Daniere (director); Mary Depaoli (director); Christa Dickenson (director); Tawfik Hammoud (director); Damon D'Oliveira (director); John Ruffoio (director); Ana Lopes (director); Andrea Van Leeuwen (director); Joanna Griffiths (director); Jeffrey Remedios (director; chair); Kevin Ulrich (director); Awanish Sinha (director); Michael Worb (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Toronto International Film Festival Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119304541RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.