Toronto Summer Music Foundation
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 884157900RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,331,237) as filed with the CRA.
Toronto Summer Music Foundation is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 39% from donations, 9% from government, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $239K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 31% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $666K in 2020 to $1.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The 2024 Festival was an all in-person Festival and Academy and hosted concerts and events at: Koerner Hall Walter Hall and Heliconian Hall. These included ticketed concerts free programming artist training and our Community Program for amateur musicians. To keep an online presence all reGENERATION concerts were recorded and excerpts of these concerts can be found on our website and YouTube pages. Our Community Showcase marathon concert was livestreamed free to the public.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1M | $105K | — | $586K |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $953K | $121K | — | $538K |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $817K | $264K | — | $510K |
| 2021 | $848K | $847K | $627K | $61K | — | $498K |
| 2020 | $666K | $514K | $294K | $61K | — | $497K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $239K from 17 charities:
- The Azrieli Foundation$50K
- Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario$46K
- BenefAction Foundation$36K
- The Whiteside Foundation$25K
- Weston Family Foundation$15K
- The Fleck Family Foundation$15K
- Allen Family Foundation$13K
- Toronto Foundation$8,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,383
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,250
- The Browning Watt Foundation$5,000
- Nelson Arthur Hyland Foundation$5,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$3,000
- Women's Musical Club of Toronto$2,500
- Covell and Edwina Foundation$2,000
- The Jagelber Fund$1,694
- The Rogan Foundation$1,194
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$278K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sandra Forbes (director); Robert Beattie (chair); Stephen Erlichman (director); Leonard Gilbert (director); Christopher Mar (vice-chair); Carlo Siccion (treasurer); Mai Why (secretary); Tom Smee (director); Judith Humphrey (director); Rowley Mossop (director); Miriam Myers (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Toronto Summer Music Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 884157900RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.