Registered charity
Hot Docs
Legal name on the register: HOT DOCS
CA-E-FXEC-EWNPActiveCanada (federal)OntarioToronto4 independent sources
$7.7MRevenue reported
$2.5MPublic money on record
23On the board
21Organisations connected
1Municipal licences
4Independent publishers
100/100Evidence depth
October 25, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-FXEC-EWNP
- Address
- 506 Bloor St. W., Toronto, ON, M5S 1Y3
- Earliest record
- January 23, 2014
Identifiers held
- Charity registration
- 895921880RR0001
- Business number
- 895921880
- Corporation number
- 3304248
- Toronto licence
- B70-5610315
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 3304248: Corporations Canada — federal corporation search.
Evidence depth
100/100
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: 21 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
38
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
60
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
73
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
82
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
83
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 | 895921880RR0001 | — | Registered |
| Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) | Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act | 3304248 | January 23, 2014 | Active |
Municipal licences (1)
| Place | Category | Number | First issued | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto | ENTERTAINMENT PLACE OF ASSEMBLY | B70-5610315 | February 17, 2026 | Issued |
A licence records permission to operate. It is issued by a municipality, not by a corporate registrar, and its presence says the organisation traded at that address on that date — nothing about whether it does today.
Board and officers on record (23)
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas De Pencier | — | November 7, 2017 | current |
| Lydia Luckevich | — | November 7, 2017 | current |
| Neil Tabatznik | — | — | current |
| Kevin Wong | — | — | current |
| Kevin Jonnson | — | November 7, 2017 | ended February 27, 2024 |
| Robin Mirsky | — | — | ended June 18, 2024 |
| Lalita Krishna | — | — | ended June 18, 2024 |
| Narine Florence | — | — | ended March 24, 2024 |
| Barry Avrich | — | — | ended April 24, 2024 |
| Beth Burgess | — | — | ended October 14, 2023 |
| Ngardy Conteh George | — | — | ended June 18, 2024 |
| Laura Curtis Ferrera | — | — | ended April 25, 2024 |
| Jennifer Dettman | — | — | ended June 13, 2024 |
| Ina Fichman | — | — | ended June 13, 2024 |
| Jessica Hallenbeck | — | — | ended February 27, 2024 |
| Sylvia Hamilton | — | — | ended June 12, 2024 |
| Scott Henderson | — | — | ended February 17, 2024 |
| Tiffany Hsiung | — | — | ended June 18, 2024 |
| Craig Miller | — | — | ended June 18, 2024 |
| Ram Raju | — | — | ended February 27, 2024 |
| Baljig Sangra | — | — | ended June 18, 2024 |
| Andrew Sheiner | — | — | ended October 14, 2023 |
| Amélie Tintin | — | — | ended April 10, 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 (21)
Every one of these rests on a single name in common, which is the weakest form this evidence takes — read them as leads, not findings.
| Organisation | Kind | Names in common |
|---|---|---|
| Academy Of Canadian Cinema And Television Foundation CA-E-Q0G2-Y2S4 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Alberta Aviation Council CA-E-GPB3-0AP4 | Registered charity | 1 |
| All Saints' Chinese Congregation CA-E-XTYG-1W0H | Registered charity | 1 |
| Canadian Non-theatrical Film & Video Corporation CA-E-GMD2-NJXW | Registered charity | 1 |
| Canadian Opera Foundation CA-E-5NR2-WK6V | Registered charity | 1 |
| Culture Days CA-E-ZR58-JFBQ | Registered charity | 1 |
| Friends of Mass General Canada, Inc. CA-E-BBRK-3JM5 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Knox United Church CA-E-H55A-B9X1 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Mauer-Sheiner Foundation CA-E-QQ05-BMN4 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Music Education Charity Of Canada CA-E-MHF6-7PMJ | Registered charity | 1 |
| One Family Fund Canada CA-E-A5ZH-S9S9 | Registered charity | 1 |
| OYA Black Arts Coalition CA-E-7EEV-BKV4 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Prairie to Pine Regional Council - The United Church of Canada CA-E-EFJA-TBEF | Registered charity | 1 |
| Professional Association Of Canadian Theatres CA-E-AGXC-6J6V | Registered charity | 1 |
| Riviere Charitable Foundation CA-E-EXWC-T11Q | Registered charity | 1 |
| Royal Canadian Legion Guelph (ontario No 234) Branch Poppy CA-E-HBZJ-Q4P6 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Schools Without Borders CA-E-FRXH-PZJJ | Registered charity | 1 |
| Sids Calgary Society CA-E-FJC7-XQQH | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Giller Foundation CA-E-79S5-P76C | Registered charity | 1 |
| Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra CA-E-XNAB-P2K4 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Vohra Miller Foundation CA-E-55FF-EM6C | Registered charity | 1 |
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, 506 BLOOR ST W.
| Organisation | Kind |
|---|---|
| Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema CA-E-NNDK-H1NT | Licensed business |
| Moonrise Theatres LTD CA-E-ZS1Q-JT7V | Licensed business |
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 May 31, 2024
- Total revenue
- $7,743,382
- Total spending
- $10,353,026
- Total assets
- $13,491,454
- Total liabilities
- $12,672,958
- Receipted donations
- $1,054,994
- From other charities
- $303,953
Charitable programs87.0% · $9.0M · line 5000
Management and administration14.3% · $1.5M · line 5010
Fundraising1.8% · $181K · line 5020
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 contracts
$55,360
across 3 awards, 2024–2026
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| National Film Board | 3 | $55,360 |
Federal grants and contributions
$2,461,128
across 18 agreements, 2018–2025
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian Heritage | 13 | $2,439,856 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 5 | $21,272 |
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
- Licensed as
- ENTERTAINMENT PLACE OF ASSEMBLY
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.
Timeline
- Federal contract — National Film Board$24,860
- Licence first issued — ENTERTAINMENT PLACE OF ASSEMBLY
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$11,500
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$50,000
- Federal contract — National Film Board$12,000
- Federal contract — National Film Board$18,500
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$30,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$2,000,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$46,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$5,012
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$50,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$40,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$99,252
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$5,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$25,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$4,509
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$4,471
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$39,875
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$3,920
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$39,500
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$3,729
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$3,360
- Registered — Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act
Why this is one record
7 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.
- Shares business number 895921880asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
- Same name and postal code M5S 1Y3asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) and City of Toronto (Municipal Licensing and Standards)
- Same name and address — 506 bloor w, toronto, ONasserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) and City of Toronto (Municipal Licensing and Standards)
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 |
| Proactive publication — federal contracts over $10,000 Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 1, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 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 |
| Toronto business licences and permits City of Toronto (Municipal Licensing and Standards) · Open Government Licence – Toronto | October 25, 2026 | P1D | 10 captures · 9 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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