Registered charity
Stratford Shakespearean Festival Of Canada
Legal name on the register: STRATFORD SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF CANADA
CA-E-36JK-GKFFFormerCanada (federal)2 independent sources
$76.5MRevenue reported
$7.4MPublic money on record
42On the board
27Organisations connected
2Independent publishers
70/100Evidence depth
September 8, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-36JK-GKFF
- Address
- 55 QUEEN ST, STRATFORD, ON, N5A 6V2
- Earliest record
- April 11, 2009
- Also known as
- Stratford Festival
Identifiers held
- Charity registration
- 119200103RR0002
- Business number
- 000238350
- Business number
- 000238385
- Business number
- 119200103
Evidence depth
70/100
Layered recordThis scores the depth of the public evidence assembled here. It does not score the organisation’s quality, reputation, solvency or risk. The formula is fixed and reproducible. See the formula.
Identityregistrations and identifiers
Operationsmunicipal licences
Filed figuresfinancials or workforce
Public moneycontracts or grants
Relationshipsfiled board or organisation links
Qualificationsstanding offers or supply arrangements
Public activitypermits and recorded work
Regulatorydecided findings
Dated historyevents with effective dates
Additional graph evidence outside the score: 27 organisation connections · 3 same-address neighbours.
Public footprint · version 1
Where this organisation appears in public records
Eight independent dimensions describe the size and shape of the evidence. They are deliberately not added into one company score: a licence, a grant, a director filing and a court finding mean different things.
Footprint is not performance.
A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.
Identityregistries, identifiers and corroboration
60
Operationslicences and operating places
0
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
60
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
55
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
94
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
71
Each dimension uses fixed, logarithmic caps so one dataset with thousands of repeated rows cannot drown out every other fact. Read the formula and limits.
Registrations
| Registrar | Instrument | Number | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada Revenue Agency | Registered charity | 119200103RR0002 | — | Registered |
Board and officers on record (42)
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah Dorrell Erb | Director | March 20, 2024 | current |
| Dominique Hussey | Director | March 20, 2024 | current |
| Warda Shazadi Meighen | Director | March 20, 2024 | current |
| Kristin Taylor | Director | March 20, 2024 | current |
| Robert Gorlin | Ex-Officio | March 20, 2024 | current |
| David Adams | Chair | March 20, 2024 | current |
| Lawrence Stevenson | Vice Chair | March 20, 2024 | current |
| Linda Rexer | DIRECTOR | August 25, 2023 | current |
| John Gardner | Ex-Officio | August 25, 2023 | current |
| Luke Gilgan | DIRECTOR | April 1, 2023 | current |
| Alexander Graham | DIRECTOR | April 1, 2023 | current |
| Suneeta Monga | DIRECTOR | April 1, 2023 | current |
| David Staines | DIRECTOR | April 1, 2023 | current |
| Peter Walters | DIRECTORS | April 1, 2023 | current |
| Carrie Wreford | DIRECTOR | April 1, 2023 | current |
| Martin Ritsma | Ex-Officio | April 1, 2023 | current |
| John Cassaday | DIRECTOR | April 2, 2022 | current |
| Tokunboh Olaoluwa | DIRECTOR | April 2, 2022 | current |
| Anne Sado | DIRECTOR | April 2, 2022 | current |
| Harvey Mccue | DIRECTOR | March 27, 2021 | current |
| David Simmonds | DIRECTOR | March 27, 2021 | current |
| Kristene Steed | DIRECTOR | March 27, 2021 | current |
| John Ian Giffen | TREASURER | March 28, 2020 | current |
| John Lewis | DIRECTOR | March 28, 2020 | current |
| Kay Schonberger | DIRECTOR | March 28, 2020 | current |
| Alan Shepard | DIRECTOR | March 28, 2020 | current |
| John Bell | DIRECTOR | March 30, 2019 | current |
| Karon Bales | DIRECTOR | March 28, 2018 | current |
| Brian Joseph Rolfes | DIRECTOR | March 24, 2018 | current |
| Antoni Cimolino | EX-OFFICIO | November 1, 2012 | current |
| Anita Gaffney | EX-OFFICIO | November 1, 2012 | current |
| David Adams | VICE CHAIR | April 2, 2022 | ended March 20, 2024 |
| Carol Stephenson | PAST CHAIR | April 2, 2022 | ended March 20, 2024 |
| Robert Gorlin | CHAIR | April 2, 2022 | ended March 20, 2024 |
| Mary Deacon | DIRECTOR | April 2, 2022 | ended March 20, 2024 |
| Lawrence Stevenson | DIRECTOR | March 27, 2021 | ended March 20, 2024 |
| Yaprak Baltacioglu | DIRECTOR | March 30, 2019 | ended March 20, 2024 |
| Barbara Crook | DIRECTOR | March 24, 2018 | ended March 20, 2024 |
| Pamela Jeffery | DIRECTOR | March 24, 2018 | ended March 20, 2024 |
| Jaime Leverton | DIRECTOR | March 24, 2018 | ended March 20, 2024 |
| Peter Restler | DIRECTOR | March 24, 2018 | ended March 20, 2024 |
| Joy Wishart | SECRETARY | March 10, 2012 | ended December 31, 2024 |
Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.
Organisations sharing a filed director name (27)
3 of them share more than one name, which is a much stronger link than the rest. Those are listed first.
| Organisation | Kind | Names in common |
|---|---|---|
| Stratford Shakespearean Festival Holding Foundation CA-E-DN07-CQZR | Registered charity | 8 |
| Stratford Shakespearean Festival Endowment Foundation CA-E-R1ZP-GQZR | Registered charity | 2 |
| The University Of Western Ontario CA-E-C5ZV-BDT3 | Registered charity | 2 |
| Central Baptist Church CA-E-XTEP-6TCD | Registered charity | 1 |
| Council Of Ontario Universities CA-E-6RD8-1Z08 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Danbe Foundation INC. CA-E-PP65-D3SQ | Registered charity | 1 |
| Facile Futures INC. CA-E-N9RR-3S95 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Fondation Sylvia-Smith CA-E-FJRY-NPHZ | Registered charity | 1 |
| Ivey Business School Foundation CA-E-VM3P-HCB8 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Kids Help Phone Foundation CA-E-GM89-1GW7 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Literary Review of Canada CA-E-BWND-BGNW | Registered charity | 1 |
| Mental Health Research Canada CA-E-TCVK-TTV6 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Ontario Brain Institute Foundation CA-E-42B8-1BQ5 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Sickkids Centre For Community Mental Health CA-E-6KE8-XXNY | Registered charity | 1 |
| St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton CA-E-1KZZ-20N0 | Registered charity | 1 |
| St. Michael's And Providence Foundation CA-E-CYPP-5T7C | Registered charity | 1 |
| Stratford And District Agricultural Society CA-E-ZM16-RQY2 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Stratford Festival Archives CA-E-CH7F-5DFS | Registered charity | 1 |
| Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation CA-E-Z07M-928B | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Advocates' Society CA-E-N5BH-KV35 | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Canadian Journalism Foundation CA-E-EP4N-QD8A | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Canadian Writers' Foundation, Inc. CA-E-RBC9-3QHX | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Peter Gilgan Foundation CA-E-28S1-RTEN | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Stratford Arts Foundation CA-E-HTCR-1DH5 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Toronto Festival of Arts, Culture and Creativity CA-E-HG7E-KQ2A | Registered charity | 1 |
Showing the 25 strongest of 27.
One name in common is a lead. Two is a link. These come from the director names each organisation filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, matched exactly as filed, and two people can share a name — across the whole corpus 95% of these rest on a single name, so a single match is genuinely weak evidence and is presented as such rather than dressed up. Two of the same names on the same pair of boards is a different matter: coincidence stops being a plausible explanation. A name appearing on more than eight boards is discarded outright as a probable collision.
The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
At the same address (3)
Organisations that filed the same street address and suite as this one, 55 QUEEN ST.
| Organisation | Kind |
|---|---|
| Stratford Festival Archives CA-E-CH7F-5DFS | Registered charity |
| Stratford Shakespearean Festival Endowment Foundation CA-E-R1ZP-GQZR | Registered charity |
| Stratford Shakespearean Festival Holding Foundation CA-E-DN07-CQZR | Registered charity |
A shared door is not always a shared purpose. Sharing an address can mean one organisation with several registered arms, a building a sector clusters in, or simply a landlord. It is a fact about where filings were sent, not a claim about who controls whom.
Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
What it raised and spent — year ended December 31, 2024
- Total revenue
- $76,523,835
- Total spending
- $72,548,464
- Total assets
- $18,052,033
- Total liabilities
- $21,111,927
- Receipted donations
- $5,656,209
- From other charities
- $20,228,974
- Granted onward
- $282,996
Charitable programs79.8% · $57.9M · line 5000
Management and administration10.7% · $7.8M · line 5010
Fundraising2.8% · $2.0M · line 5020
Not broken down in the return6.7% · $4.9M
These are the charity’s own figures. They come from the T3010 return it filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, which is a statement the organisation makes about itself rather than an audit or an assessment of it. They are also a single year: a charity that received a capital gift, sold a building, or ran a campaign will look unlike itself.
A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
Public money on record
Federal grants and contributions
$7,433,352
across 5 agreements, 2009–2025
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | 3 | $6,150,000 |
| Canadian Heritage | 2 | $1,283,352 |
Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.
Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
What it does
- Industry code
- 711111 · 711311North American Industry Classification System
Trade and licence class are the publisher’s own words, kept as written rather than mapped onto a vocabulary of this site’s invention — a Calgary “RESTAURANT” and a Montréal “Restaurant service rapide” describe the same thing and are not the same string, and pretending otherwise would put words in a city’s mouth. The industry code is the exception: NAICS is a standard shared across Canada, the United States and Mexico, so it means the same thing wherever it appears. Only some publishers assign one.
Timeline
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$930,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$353,352
- Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$150,000
- Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$3,000,000
- Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$3,000,000
Where this record comes from
| Dataset | Last captured | Cadence | Coverage kept | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 2, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 5, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — identification (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 8, 2026 | P1Y | 2 captures · 1 comparisons | current |
| Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 3, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
Freshness is measured, not implied. “Last captured” is when this project last completed a read of the whole source dataset. “Coverage kept” is how many immutable captures and meaningful capture-to-capture comparisons are available. A missed day remains an explicit gap; a later snapshot cannot tell us what happened inside it. See every source.
This page is assembled from open data. It is not an official record, and the registrar is authoritative where the two disagree. How records are assembled.
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