Calgary Performing Arts Festival Society
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 129539235RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($411,950) as filed with the CRA.
Calgary Performing Arts Festival Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $370K in revenue and $412K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from government, 57% from other charities. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $192K.
Compared with 724 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
An annual performing arts festival involving approximately 10 000 youth who have an opportunity to perform in front of a live audience and receive written and oral feedback from professional adjudicators in 17 different categories including piano vocal strings woodwind brass percussion bank choral guitar speech arts choral speech composition orchestra chamber ensembles and musical theatre. The festival encourages classical contemporary music and speech arts performances among amateur students of all ages.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $370K | $412K | $197K | — | — | $253K |
| 2023 | $481K | $372K | $209K | — | — | $289K |
| 2022 | $262K | $168K | $106K | — | — | $181K |
| 2021 | $266K | $123K | $83K | — | — | $87K |
| 2020 | $342K | $349K | $214K | $35K | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $192K from 3 charities:
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
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$109K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tara Lee Black (director); Weston Jacques (president); Michael Jewitt (executive director); Mathea Mitchell (vice-president); Slavko Popovic (director); Bjorn Wolkmann (director); Sarah Huber (treasurer); Julie Jacques (director); Robert Steed (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Calgary Performing Arts Festival Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129539235RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.