Confederation Centre of the Arts Foundation Inc.
Private foundation · Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island · BN 841534712RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($631,986) as filed with the CRA.
Confederation Centre of the Arts Foundation Inc. is a private foundation based in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.3M in revenue and $632K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $540K in 2024, the largest being $540K to Fathers of Confederation Buildings Trust. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $781K in 2020 to $2.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The foundation acquires and accepts gifts and contributions to create a fund of capital with income from this fund used for the support and benefit of the fathers of confederation buildings trust (operating as confederation centre of the arts) and other qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $632K | — | — | $540K | $15.8M |
| 2023 | -$117K | $611K | — | — | $500K | $14.1M |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $594K | — | — | $500K | $14.9M |
| 2021 | $3.2M | $135K | — | — | $50K | $14.3M |
| 2020 | $781K | $2.2M | — | — | $650K | $11.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $540K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $1.3M from 10 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$1M
- The Windsor Foundation$150K
- The Joan and Regis Duffy Foundation$90K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$40K
- Walter and Duncan Gordon Charitable Foundation$10K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$5,000
- The Polar Foundation$3,500
- The Community Foundation of Prince Edward Island Inc.$3,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,038
- Canadahelps Canadon$24
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
James Travers (chair); Lori Pendleton (vice chair); Hailey Roswell (director); George Rogers (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Confederation Centre of the Arts Foundation Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 841534712RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.