Toronto Live Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 719381519RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($396,548) as filed with the CRA.
Toronto Live Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.6M in revenue and $397K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from donations. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $52K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 28% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 88% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $300K in 2024, the largest being $300K to To Live. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $13K in 2020 to $2.6M in 2024.
In its own words
Statement of purpose 1: to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal therefrom from time to time to making grants to live or its successor so long as it remains a qualified donee under the income tax act ( canada). Activities and support of statements of purpose 1: to live is the registered charity establishment by the city of toronto to operate its live theatre venues. To live has been a registered charity (operating originally as the board of directors of the hummingbird centre for the performing arts ) since 1981 and has cra business number 1192…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $397K | — | $67K | $300K | $4.6M |
| 2023 | $132K | $88K | — | $79K | — | $2.4M |
| 2022 | $44K | $9,336 | — | — | — | $2.4M |
| 2021 | $20K | $7,487 | — | — | — | $2.3M |
| 2020 | $13K | $7,345 | — | — | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $300K to 1 qualified donee:
- To Live$300K
Received $52K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Toronto Live Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 719381519RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.