Antigonish Culture Alive Association
Publicly funded institution · Antigonish, Nova Scotia · BN 869819789RR0001 · Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($58,977) as filed with the CRA.
Antigonish Culture Alive Association is a charitable organization based in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $97K in revenue and $59K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 16% from donations, 66% from government, 14% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $43K.
Compared with 89 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers.
In its own words
ACA's primary cultural event is the annual after-dark arts festival Antigonight: Art After Dark. This festival runs over two weeks and showcases local and Maritime-based artists in exhibitions artist talks and workshops. Additionally several promotional weekly events occur throughout the summer for families children and youth to engage the community in artist-led activities. ACA administers the Antigonish Public Art Program on behalf of the Town of Antigonish. The program is an annual juried competition for an artist or artist collective to produce a work for a public space in Antigon…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $97K | $59K | $36K | — | $20K | $45K |
| 2023 | $111K | $118K | $46K | — | $21K | $4,586 |
| 2022 | $74K | $69K | $66K | — | — | $12K |
| 2021 | $77K | $84K | $84K | — | — | $7,252 |
| 2020 | $77K | $82K | $68K | — | — | $14K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $43K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$12K
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 Antigonish Culture Alive Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 869819789RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.