Vibe Arts
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 897960456RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,131,262) as filed with the CRA.
Vibe Arts is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 25% from government, 24% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $563K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
VIBE Arts (formerly know as Arts for Children and Youth) annually engages young people 3 - 28 who live or identify with the margins in free hands-on art educational programs custom designed to respond to the unique needs of each community that we work with. VIBE Arts works collaboratively with education and social agencies to conduct our multi-disciplinary arts programs which take place directly in shelter public housing libraries schools parks hospitals detention and community centers. Each VIBE Arts program features youth mentorship leadership learning and employment opportunit…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $779K | $98K | — | $568K |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $981K | $119K | — | $590K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $751K | $85K | — | $656K |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $1M | $734K | $54K | $0 | $500K |
| 2020 | $990K | $851K | $544K | $72K | — | $420K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $563K from 18 charities:
- Toronto Foundation$185K
- The Slaight Family Foundation$100K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$68K
- RBC Foundation$45K
- MLSE Foundation$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$26K
- Canadahelps Canadon$26K
- Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario$17K
- Co-operators Community Fund (Charity)$16K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$11K
- Canada Gives$7,500
- Alice and Murray Maitland Foundation$5,000
- Lindy Green Family Foundation$5,000
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The McLean Foundation$5,000
- N.a. Taylor Foundation$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$895
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$58
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
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$578K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nish Shah (vice chair); Khalid Haddad (treasurer); Dwayne Morgan (chair); Steven Hudson (director); Fatime Kamenge (director); Tessa Balaz (director); Jaime Schulman (director); Eleanor Buxton (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vibe Arts’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 897960456RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.