Thank You to Our 2025 Supporters!

 

Thanks to all of ArtHeart’s supporters and friends who helped to provide the resources needed to make ArtHeart projects and programs possible in 2025!

 

Volunteers and Student Placements:

 

54 people contributed a combined total of approximately 5137 hours in volunteer service to arts programs and administration to ArtHeart through the year at a value of: $193,767.64  (Based on: the average hourly wage in Ontario was $37.72 in 2025 - ON gov’t.)

 

·      25 Participant Volunteers contributed 1224 hours

·      14 Student Placements contributed 2354 hours 

·      5 volunteers contributed: 283 hours

·      7 Board Members volunteered 234 hours

·      3 Staff volunteered 1042 hours  

 

Donations In-Kind: In 2025, the value of donations in-kind was $1601 for art supplies and materials. The value of food donations was: $63,486.90.* The total value of donations in kind to ArtHeart was: $65,087.90 

 

*The value of food donations to ArtHeart were: Daily Bread Food Bank: $4,355.90 (Jan.- June) and Second Harvest: $59,131 (one fiscal year period Sept/24-Aug/25) (As quoted from Daily Bread & Second Harvest). Total one year donated food value: $63,486.90

 

Student Placements at ArtHeart:

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·      George Brown College: 3 student placements in Social Services 

·      Toronto Metropolitan University: 1 student placement in Social Services

·      Humber College: 2 student placements in Social Services 

·      York University: 8 student placements in Education

 

Outstanding generous individuals!!!!

 

Other Fundraising: Art Sales, Studio Rentals, Participant Contributions, Donations of Stock, Direct Mail, Paint Night Event, Sale of Printing Press

 

Foundations, Corporations and Government:

 

General Operations: ArtHubs (fee for service), Canada Gives (The Greens, Taylor Taliesin Fdn., Anonymous), Canada Helps (Individual Donations), CUPE Local 3902, Frederick and Douglas Dickson Memorial Foundation, Gift Funds Canada, Grey Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, Henry White Kinnear Foundation, iA Financial Group, Marjorie and Joseph Wright Memorial Foundation, McLean Smits Family Foundation, Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation, Ontario Arts Foundation - Endowment Fund, Paypal, Ruth Mandel - WHO GIVES FUND, Toronto Community Housing Corporation (fee for service)

 

Children, Youth and Family / Mobile / Arts Programs: Beutel Goodman Charitable Foundation, Catherine & Maxwell Meighen Foundation, Georgina Foundation (art supplies), Jackman Foundation, Kiwanis Club of Toronto, Leanne Children’s Foundation, Liuna Local 183, M.E.H. Foundation, McLean Family Foundation, TD Canada Trust

 

Adults and Seniors Mobile Arts Programs: Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts (Award)

 

Resilient Communities Fund: Ontario Trillium Foundation

 

No Starving Artists: Mazon Canada, Daily Bread Food Bank

 

Youth Employment and Arts Education Program: Arthur and Audrey Cutten Foundation, Traquair Family Fdn.