Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Charitable organization · Fredericton, New Brunswick · BN 106780851RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,176,683) as filed with the CRA.
Beaverbrook Art Gallery is a charitable organization based in Fredericton, New Brunswick, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.7M in revenue and $5.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 26% from government. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $89K.
Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 28 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $8.7M in 2020 to $5.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The beaverbrook art gallery's activities consist of acquisitions lectures tours and volunteer programs. Present engaging and stimulating exhibitions and programs to encourage full appreciation of the visual arts. Study and interpretation of the galley's permanent collection and the acknowledgement of atlantic canadian artists both contemporary and historical.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.7M | $5.2M | — | — | — | $28M |
| 2023 | $16.3M | $4.6M | $4.1M | $229K | — | $26.6M |
| 2022 | $3.9M | $9.7M | $8.7M | $384K | — | $14.5M |
| 2021 | $9.4M | $10.1M | $8.9M | $479K | — | $16.3M |
| 2020 | $8.7M | $5.8M | $5M | $245K | — | $15M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $89K from 9 charities:
- Isles Foundation Incorporated$25K
- The Tamarack Charitable Foundation Inc.$25K
- Trust Under the Will of Charlotte Elizabeth Baker of Beaverbrook Art Gallery Fredericton New Brunswick$14K
- Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Inc.$12K
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,820
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,000
- Canada Gives$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
- United Way/Centraide (Central N.B./Region Du Centre du N.B.)Inc.$234
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,99915 positions
- $1–39,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions28
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Ann Birks (director); Andrew Forestell (secretary treasurer); Elizabeth Currie (director); Shannon Wilson (director); Richard Currie (director); Lucinda Flemer (director); James Irving (chair); Earl Brewer (director); Maxwell Aitken (director); Hermenegilde Chiasson (director); Ann McCain-Evans (director); Paul Simmons (director); Lana Tingley-Lacroix (director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Beaverbrook Art Gallery’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106780851RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.