Toronto Photographers Workshop
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119267235RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($363,556) as filed with the CRA.
Toronto Photographers Workshop 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $343K in revenue and $364K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 70% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4,813.
Compared with 355 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 21% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Gallery TPW programs support Canadian and international artists and educate the public about the vital role that still photographs and moving images play in contemporary culture. We present up to five exhibitions per year at Gallery TPW that explore the exchange between photography culture new technologies and time-based art. We maintain a content-rich website presenting current information about contemporary photo and media-based art as well as an archive of essays and images dating from 1976 to the present. We commission and publish essays to provide critical context for each ex…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $343K | $364K | $235K | $39K | — | -$92K |
| 2023 | — | $412K | $283K | $49K | — | -$72K |
| 2022 | $378K | $432K | $300K | $47K | — | -$72K |
| 2021 | $424K | $443K | $307K | $53K | — | -$18K |
| 2020 | $302K | $258K | $144K | $34K | — | $951 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4,813 from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$139K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Steven Beckly (director); Aisha Green (director); Maria Kanellopolous (president); Natalie MacLean (treasurer); Zinnia Naqvi (secretary); Rachel Wine (director); Kate Wong (director); Lina El Mugammar (director); Alize Zorlutuna (director); Robyn Zolnai (director); Alana Pagnutti (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Toronto Photographers Workshop’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119267235RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.