Urbanarts Community Arts Council
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 894382910RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($847,690) as filed with the CRA.
Urbanarts Community Arts Council is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $709K in revenue and $848K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from government, 20% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $66K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 13% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 81% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The organization promotes the building of an inclusive community by engaging and enriching their lives through arts culture and heritage by providing the following services: 1. Multidisciplinary after school arts programs 2. 1 2 step: healthy living through dance 3. A world of food - inter-generational culinary arts 4. Beats.mind.movement music producation 5. Mural arts program 6. Summerarts 7. Urban garden project 8. Events (e.g. Cultureshock community arts festival black history month and winter expo) 9. York artist networks: workshops (e.g. Master classes grant writing inc…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $709K | $848K | $503K | $26K | — | $37K |
| 2023 | $764K | $771K | $546K | $36K | — | $177K |
| 2022 | $827K | $724K | $548K | $57K | — | $240K |
| 2021 | $791K | $730K | $596K | $42K | — | $137K |
| 2020 | $644K | $652K | $502K | $52K | — | $76K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $66K from 2 charities:
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
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$520K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kern Carter (director); Lensa Simesso Denga (secretary); Sapna Kaur (treasurer); Karen Lawrence (chair); Rafy Mehran (director); Earl Phillips (director); Tevya Reid (vice chair); Alexander Shvartz (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Urbanarts Community Arts Council’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 894382910RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.