Arts On the Ave Edmonton Society
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 852990159RR0001 · Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,270,364) as filed with the CRA.
Arts On the Ave Edmonton Society is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 62% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $68K.
Compared with 90 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 70% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 83% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Arts on the ave has organized and presented a broad range of activities: estensive art showings a variety of inter-disciplinary festivals as well as activities that are a blend of artistic expressions in an educational mentoring and sharing environment. Using the existing cultural fabric to enliven edmonton's inner-city neighbourhoods.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.1M | $16K | — | $174K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1.1M | $15K | — | $151K |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $1.2M | $11K | — | $164K |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.2M | — | — | $213K |
| 2020 | $1M | $982K | $874K | — | — | $185K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $68K from 7 charities:
- Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada$22K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$11K
- Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko$6,000
- The Edmonton Folk Music Festival Society$4,618
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,442
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$174
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$319K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Randall Fraser (president); Randy Ritz (director); Jessica Dupuis (director); Ann Pugh Jones (vp external); Torrey Dance (vp internal); Diane Davies (director); Will Vandervelde (director); Tiina Jansen (treasurer/secretary); Jan Preece (director); James Walsh (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Arts On the Ave Edmonton Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 852990159RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.