Registered charity
Canadian Opera Foundation
Legal name on the register: CANADIAN OPERA FOUNDATION
CA-E-5NR2-WK6VActiveCanada (federal)4 independent sources
$7.1MRevenue reported
$4.3MPublic money on record
41On the board
44Organisations connected
4Independent publishers
95/100Evidence depth
October 24, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-5NR2-WK6V
- Address
- 227 FRONT STREET EAST, TORONTO, ON, M5A 1E8
- Earliest record
- December 6, 1993
- Also known as
- The Canadian Opera Foundation
Identifiers held
- Charity registration
- 118834829RR0001
- Charity registration
- 119219558RR0001
- Business number
- 118834829
- Business number
- 119219558
- Corporation number
- 034892-9
- Corporation number
- 348929
- Legal Entity Identifier
- 549300M6HWOEDV6WQ195
Who controls this corporation. Federal corporations must file their Individuals with Significant Control with Corporations Canada. That register is not redistributed here — it can only be searched by corporation name or number, by design, so it cannot become a lookup by a person’s name. Search it directly for corporation number 034892-9: Corporations Canada — federal corporation search.
Global legal identity. This organisation carries a Legal Entity Identifier in the GLEIF system. The LEI is evidence attached to this entities.ca record; it does not replace the permanent Canadian Entity Identifier. Open the GLEIF source record.
Evidence depth
95/100
Deep 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: 44 organisation connections · 2 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
100
Operationslicences and operating places
0
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
60
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
59
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
93
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
81
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 | 118834829RR0001 | — | Registered |
| Canada Revenue Agency | Registered charity | 119219558RR0001 | — | Registered |
| Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) | Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act | 348929 | January 30, 2014 | Active |
| Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | Legal Entity Identifier | 549300M6HWOEDV6WQ195 | February 13, 2016 | ACTIVE — LEI LAPSED · GLEIF FULLY_CORROBORATED |
Board and officers on record (41)
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marcia Lewis Brown | Director | November 6, 2024 | current |
| Kristy Balkwill | Director | October 30, 2023 | current |
| Mike Brown | Director | October 30, 2023 | current |
| Shelly Campbell | Director | October 30, 2023 | current |
| Julianna Greenspan | Director | October 30, 2023 | current |
| Christopher Jones | Director | October 30, 2023 | current |
| Terrence Leon | Director | October 30, 2023 | current |
| Lily Li | Director | October 30, 2023 | current |
| Bruce Murray | Director | October 30, 2023 | current |
| Glenn Sakaki | Director | October 30, 2023 | current |
| Troy Ungerman | Director | October 30, 2023 | current |
| Sadhisha Ambagahawita | Director | December 1, 2022 | current |
| Barry Avrich | Director | December 1, 2022 | current |
| Al Ramsay | Director | December 1, 2022 | current |
| Stewart Burton | Director | November 10, 2020 | current |
| Brian Collins | Treasurer | October 28, 2020 | current |
| Christopher Bozek | Director | June 16, 2020 | current |
| Sarah Cohen | Director | October 21, 2019 | current |
| Varqa Mirzaagha | Director | October 21, 2019 | current |
| Angela Bhutani | Director | June 19, 2019 | current |
| Huston Loke | Secretary | June 19, 2019 | current |
| Eudice Goldberg | Director | May 28, 2018 | current |
| Graham Watchorn | Director | October 27, 2014 | current |
| Anne Maggisano | Director | October 27, 2013 | current |
| H. Anthony Arrell | Chair | January 30, 2013 | current |
| Chris Hoffmann | Vice Chair | January 30, 2013 | current |
| Marcia Lewis Brown | Director | October 26, 2010 | current |
| Anthony Arrell | Director | October 28, 2009 | current |
| Jeff Lloyd | Director | November 4, 2008 | current |
| Kristine Vikmanis | Director | November 4, 2008 | current |
| Colleen Sexsmith | Director | November 30, 2006 | current |
| John Macfarlane | Secretary | October 28, 2005 | current |
| Jonathan Morgan | Chair | September 27, 2002 | current |
| Willam Fearn | Director | July 1, 2002 | current |
| Paul Spafford | Vice Chair | July 1, 1995 | current |
| David Ferguson | Director/Ex-Officio | December 6, 1993 | current |
| George Dembroski | Director | June 16, 2020 | ended February 26, 2024 |
| Jonathan Morgan | Director | June 19, 2019 | ended November 6, 2024 |
| Justin Linden | Director | November 27, 2013 | ended October 30, 2023 |
| Nora Aufreiter | Director | January 31, 2008 | ended October 30, 2023 |
| Paul Bernards | Treasurer | July 1, 2003 | ended October 30, 2023 |
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 (44)
1 of them shares more than one name, which is a much stronger link than the rest. Those are listed first.
| Organisation | Kind | Names in common |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian Opera House Corporation CA-E-DB0G-MSZN | Registered charity | 4 |
| Arrell Family Foundation CA-E-6PW4-EEJK | Registered charity | 1 |
| Bethesda Community Cemetery CA-E-6M1Y-1YXX | Registered charity | 1 |
| Burgundy Legacy Foundation CA-E-T7BS-27WW | Registered charity | 1 |
| Calgary Mosquito Aircraft Preservation Society CA-E-S5RY-PFK3 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Calgary Timepoint Performing Arts Society CA-E-YEAR-9EEX | Registered charity | 1 |
| Calvary Lutheran Church CA-E-B3SK-ZYVD | Registered charity | 1 |
| Canadian Civil Liberties Education Trust CA-E-DJNC-2WNX | Registered charity | 1 |
| Clarkson Road Presbyterian Church CA-E-FC8J-C819 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Community Concert Band Of Whitby CA-E-3TTC-AZYC | Registered charity | 1 |
| Concussion Legacy Foundation (Canada) Inc. CA-E-BYYY-EE6H | Registered charity | 1 |
| Crow's Theatre Foundation CA-E-72PB-9FHQ | Registered charity | 1 |
| Culture Days CA-E-ZR58-JFBQ | Registered charity | 1 |
| FAMSAC Food Cupboard CA-E-EKST-1WCG | Registered charity | 1 |
| Grace Church-on-the-hill CA-E-XVY8-KB81 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Groves Hospital Volunteer Association CA-E-55XS-JG38 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Hands For Humanity INC. CA-E-CVX0-THXC | Registered charity | 1 |
| Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation CA-E-R969-A7PF | Registered charity | 1 |
| Hot Docs CA-E-FXEC-EWNP | Registered charity | 1 |
| Lethbridge Area Search And Rescue Association CA-E-A00X-33QK | Registered charity | 1 |
| Literary Review of Canada CA-E-BWND-BGNW | Registered charity | 1 |
| London Health Sciences Foundation CA-E-4VVB-WDQ8 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Mercy Ships Canada Society CA-E-HNNB-RMP7 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Rainbow Railroad CA-E-WKKV-FQ4P | Registered charity | 1 |
| Sandford United Baptist Church CA-E-7EE3-W52R | Registered charity | 1 |
Showing the 25 strongest of 44.
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 (2)
Organisations that filed the same street address and suite as this one, 227 FRONT ST E.
| Organisation | Kind |
|---|---|
| Canadian Children's Opera Company CA-E-X01Z-2TSJ | Registered charity |
| Canadian Opera House Corporation CA-E-DB0G-MSZN | 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
- $7,074,371
- Total spending
- $371,292
- Total assets
- $50,984,988
- Total liabilities
- $107,526
- Receipted donations
- $145,000
- From other charities
- $200,000
- Granted onward
- $8,526,000
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
$4,287,043
across 18 agreements, 2018–2025
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian Heritage | 10 | $4,234,503 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 8 | $52,540 |
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.
Timeline
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$256,139
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$8,940
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$900,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$222,350
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$9,178
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$117,779
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$8,592
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$600,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$8,296
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$300,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$544,878
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$3,865
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$644,372
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$3,702
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$45,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$6,265
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$603,985
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$3,702
- Registered — Legal Entity Identifier
- Registered — Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act
Why this is one record
6 public datasets from 4 independent publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.
- Same name and postal code M5A 1E8asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) and Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)
- Shares business number 119219558asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
- Same name and address — 227 front east, toronto, ONasserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) and Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)
An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.
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 |
| Federal corporations — active not-for-profit, co-operative and boards of trade Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) · Open Government Licence – Canada | October 24, 2026 | P1D | 11 captures · 10 comparisons | due |
| Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 3, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Global LEI Index — Canadian legal entities Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) · Public Domain — CC0 1.0 Universal | October 24, 2026 | P1D | 5 captures · 4 comparisons | due |
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.
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