Registered charity
The Toronto Symphony Foundation
Legal name on the register: THE TORONTO SYMPHONY FOUNDATION
CA-E-RKR5-V0VSCurrentCanada (federal)2 independent sources
$34.3MRevenue reported
$49KPublic money on record
27On the board
25Organisations connected
2Independent publishers
74/100Evidence depth
September 8, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-RKR5-V0VS
- Address
- 500 - 145 WELLINGTON ST W, TORONTO, ON, M5J 1H8
- Earliest record
- March 8, 2016
- Also known as
- Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Identifiers held
- Charity registration
- 105255335RR0001
- Charity registration
- 887967248RR0001
- Business number
- 105255335
- Business number
- 887967248
Evidence depth
74/100
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: 25 organisation connections.
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
75
Operationslicences and operating places
0
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
60
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
40
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
85
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
69
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 | 105255335RR0001 | — | Registered |
| Canada Revenue Agency | Registered charity | 887967248RR0001 | — | Registered |
Board and officers on record (27)
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hon. Elizabeth Dowdeswell | Director | June 19, 2024 | current |
| John Gerhardt | Director | June 19, 2024 | current |
| Nichole Anderson Bergeron | Director | October 16, 2023 | current |
| Helen Killoch | Director | October 16, 2023 | current |
| Justice Donald McLeod | Director | October 16, 2023 | current |
| Martha Durdin | Director | September 29, 2022 | current |
| Michael Lockhart | Director | September 29, 2022 | current |
| Cathy Carlin | TRUSTEE | September 28, 2022 | current |
| Blackwell Owen | TRUSTEE | September 28, 2022 | current |
| Mark Williams | CEO | April 15, 2022 | current |
| Gilad Rom | Director | February 2, 2022 | current |
| Debra Walker | Director | November 30, 2021 | current |
| Natalie Ochrym | TRUSTEE | September 29, 2021 | current |
| Peter Hinman | EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEE | September 22, 2021 | current |
| Neal Kerr | VICE CHAIR | September 11, 2019 | current |
| Doris Chan | Director | October 18, 2018 | current |
| Peter Hinman | Director | October 18, 2018 | current |
| Jeanine Lichong | CHAIR | October 4, 2018 | current |
| Andrew Phillips | Director | June 6, 2018 | current |
| Ross Kerr | Director | November 15, 2017 | current |
| Catherine Beck | EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEE | December 15, 2016 | current |
| Sharon Groom | Director | October 20, 2016 | current |
| Catherine Beck | Director | June 16, 2016 | current |
| Noëlle Richardson | Director | April 26, 2016 | current |
| Thomas Smee | Director | March 8, 2016 | current |
| Colin Lynch | Director | August 24, 2020 | ended October 16, 2023 |
| Jaye Robinson | Director | February 6, 2019 | ended May 16, 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 (25)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation CA-E-YGNC-P3NK | Registered charity | 1 |
| Alzheimer Society Of Toronto CA-E-TQMC-A927 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Arthritis Research Foundation CA-E-MN5P-VBHN | Registered charity | 1 |
| Benjamin Herbert Birstein Trust #2 CA-E-M0SR-3G3Y | Registered charity | 1 |
| Black Opportunity Fund CA-E-ZK6B-QBAS | Registered charity | 1 |
| Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada CA-E-A007-5JYY | Registered charity | 1 |
| Canada Post Corporation Employees Charity Trust Fund CA-E-FEMN-93TF | Registered charity | 1 |
| Code CA-E-D5VT-M8JY | Registered charity | 1 |
| Courage For Youth Association CA-E-VQ4E-R76Z | Registered charity | 1 |
| First United Baptist Church CA-E-V227-VWB6 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Fondation Du Musee D'art Contemporain De Montreal CA-E-S455-33NK | Registered charity | 1 |
| Hennick Bridgepoint Foundation CA-E-3EEQ-WF77 | Registered charity | 1 |
| La Fondation Pierre Elliott Trudeau CA-E-6181-Y3TM | Registered charity | 1 |
| Mon Sheong Foundation CA-E-MD2A-4WR6 | Registered charity | 1 |
| National Gallery Of Canada Foundation CA-E-A132-CC6A | Registered charity | 1 |
| Reston And District United Appeal INC. CA-E-CVT2-DCH1 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Roots of Empathy CA-E-S01S-FVKK | Registered charity | 1 |
| Sinai Health Foundation CA-E-Z3Y0-J1GA | Registered charity | 1 |
| Strathfield Foundation CA-E-QBGB-PGTG | Registered charity | 1 |
| Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation CA-E-Z07M-928B | Registered charity | 1 |
| Sunnybrook Research Academy CA-E-9108-QDE5 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Sunnybrook Research Institute CA-E-07FY-0216 | Registered charity | 1 |
| The National Ballet of Canada CA-E-E9VP-29C0 | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Roman Catholic Bishop Of Nelson CA-E-G8MF-YNG0 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Toronto Symphony Volunteer Committee CA-E-ETER-2MYX | 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.
What it raised and spent — year ended June 30, 2024
- Total revenue
- $34,267,813
- Total spending
- $32,611,802
- Total assets
- $8,731,789
- Total liabilities
- $7,866,649
- Receipted donations
- $7,570,507
- From other charities
- $7,091,542
- Granted onward
- $1,602,220
Charitable programs66.6% · $21.7M · line 5000
Management and administration26.3% · $8.6M · line 5010
Fundraising7.1% · $2.3M · line 5020
Not broken down in the return0.0% · $1
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
$48,720
across 7 agreements, 2019–2025
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 6 | $47,870 |
| Canadian Heritage | 1 | $850 |
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 — Employment and Social Development Canada$5,563
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$10,706
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$4,840
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$9,041
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$8,860
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$850
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$8,860
Why this is one record
4 public datasets from 2 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 M5J 1H8asserted by Canada Revenue Agency
- Same name and address — 500 145 wellington w, toronto, ONasserted by Canada Revenue Agency
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 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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