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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC.

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 78 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$9,864,804 to it, the largest being ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO (C$2,682,241). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
C$46M
Funders on record
78
Grants received
C$9.9M
Net assets
C$68M
41/78 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Toronto International Film Festival Inc. does

Ongoing programs

Festivals: canada's top ten tiff next wave (under 25) tiff festival film programming (cinematheque theatrical) community programming (senior film fridays reel comfort special delivery) adult programming (lecture series learning initiatives subscription series) film circuit film reference library (reel heritage film restoration and preservation) industry programming partner film festivals (hosting) number of volunteers: 1619 volunteer hours: 43 410.52

As stated on its FY2024 T3010.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$45M) Expenses 100 (C$47M) Net assets 100 (C$77M)2018 Revenue 102 (C$45M) Expenses 105 (C$50M) Net assets 94 (C$72M)2019 Revenue 102 (C$45M) Expenses 96 (C$46M) Net assets 94 (C$72M)2020 Revenue 59 (C$26M) Expenses 59 (C$28M) Net assets 92 (C$70M)2021 Revenue 66 (C$30M) Expenses 58 (C$27M) Net assets 95 (C$72M)2022 Revenue 109 (C$49M) Expenses 92 (C$43M) Net assets 101 (C$78M)2023 Revenue 89 (C$40M) Expenses 104 (C$49M) Net assets 88 (C$68M)2024 Revenue 102 (C$46M) Expenses 95 (C$45M) Net assets 89 (C$68M)
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Revenue (102)Expenses (95)Net assets (89)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from C$107M to C$95M (−11%).

C$114M
C$108M
C$105M
C$102M
C$104M
C$107M
C$95M
C$98M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 13% · 2018 9% · 2019 10% · 2020 38% · 2021 43% · 2022 30% · 2023 11% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

10% of TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC.’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (17% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 39 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$2.9M
’17
−C$4.5M
’18
−C$289k
’19
−C$1.5M
’20
C$2.1M
’21
C$5.1M
’22
−C$9.8M
’23
C$391k
’24
2.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed2022212023171715
Joined·+4+2+1+6+2+2+5
No longer listed·2323827
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 28 funders, grant income fell C$1.4M → C$1.2M.

Funder
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total
C$183k
C$158k
C$142k
C$126k
Abundance Canadaunclassified
C$81k
C$77k
Cidel Foundationunclassified
C$52k
C$42k
funders
25
27
35
25
21
29
28
28

From the CRA filings of TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC.’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC. has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC..

27%
largest funder
50%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 26% · 2019 22% · 2020 32% · 2021 58% · 2022 27% · 2023 27% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

33% of TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC.'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

91% of TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC.'s grant income comes from Ontario funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$533k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC. runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 44 arts nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · above the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 44 arts nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government revenue TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC. reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$6.7M
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  • 15% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC.

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ontario

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 14%Fundraising 9%

Governance

15
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC.?
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC. (Ontario) receives grants from 78 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$9,864,804 to it, the largest being ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO (C$2,682,241). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC. have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 78 organizations giving C$9,864,804 in grants to TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC., 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC.?
ONTARIO ARTS FOUNDATION/FONDATION DES ARTS DE L'ONTARIO is the largest funder on record, with C$2,682,241 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC. find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.

These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 78 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register