Young People's Theatre
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119307254RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($4,642,529) as filed with the CRA.
Young People's Theatre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $4.4M in revenue and $4.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 36% from government, 24% from other charities. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $961K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 45% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 82% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 31 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $750 in 2024, the largest being $500 to Anishnawbe Health Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 23 names.
In its own words
The Theatre exists to provide theatrical productions at the highest professional standards for young people and their families and through the theatrical art form to operate a wide range of educational programming that promotes the emotional social and intellectual development of young people.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.4M | $4.6M | $3.6M | $417K | $750 | $1M |
| 2023 | $6.7M | $5M | $3.9M | $425K | $750 | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $9.1M | $3.2M | $2.4M | $337K | $5,000 | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $4.5M | $3.2M | $2.2M | $373K | $2,000 | $931K |
| 2020 | $5.2M | $4.3M | $3.6M | $274K | $5,000 | $731K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $750 to 2 qualified donees:
Received $961K from 23 charities:
- The Slaight Family Foundation$250K
- The Dalglish Family Foundation$200K
- Canadahelps Canadon$94K
- Canadahelps Canadon$94K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$70K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$51K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$42K
- WCPD Foundation$34K
- Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario$32K
- Tippet Foundation$15K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$15K
- Edwards Charitable Foundation$10K
- Canada Gives$10K
- The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation$10K
- Toronto Foundation$5,500
- Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario Humanity Fund$5,000
- The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation$5,000
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund$5,000
- The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundation$5,000
- The Leonard Charities$3,348
- The McLean Foundation$3,000
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$1,000
- The Henry White Kinnear Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions31
- Total compensation, all staff$3.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Racheal Awe (director); Richard Boyce (co-chair); Carol Chiu (director); Jo-Ann Davis (director); Kelechi Enyinna (treasurer); Jenine Krause (co-chair); Marlene Lenarduzzi (director); Joseph Micallef (governance chair); Seanna Millar (member at large); Sean Ramnarine (director); David Scandiffio (past chair); Bob Tam (director); Herbie Barnes (artistic director); Nancy Webster (executive director); Daryl Cukierman (director); Teresa Lesyk (director); Richard Anton (director); Lisa Hofstatter (director); Atulan Navaratnam (vice chair); Denise Richardson (director); Stephen Stewart (director); Eduardo Viniegra Beltrán (director); Mellany Welsh (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Young People's Theatre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119307254RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.