African Stages Association
Publicly funded institution · Surrey, British Columbia · BN 856312509RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($96,449) as filed with the CRA.
African Stages Association is a charitable organization based in Surrey, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $172K in revenue and $96K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 94% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $233.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
ACTIVITIES/SERVICES • On the Wings of Proverbs • Poetry Nights • Story-Powering Our Youth Theatre • On the Wings of Stories Performance • Stories with Elders • Tohio Vlog • Annual Storytelling and Cultural Festival • Annual Storytelling Symposium • Annual Fundraising Night • Entertaining and Feeding the Homeless • Annual African Heritage/Black History Month Storytelling and Cultural Show
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $172K | $96K | $31K | $0 | $10K | $160K |
| 2023 | $21K | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | $146K | $105K | — | — | $10K | $8,505 |
| 2021 | $10K | $21K | $11K | — | $10K | $0 |
| 2020 | $207K | — | — | — | — | $76K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $233 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$40K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from African Stages Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 856312509RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.