Edmonton Symphony Society
Charitable organization · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 118894203RR0001 · Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($11,957,874) as filed with the CRA.
Edmonton Symphony Society is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $11.3M in revenue and $12M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations, 26% from government, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 27 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.4M.
Compared with 39 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 69% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 94% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 29 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
The edmonton symphony orchestra's mission is to bring the highest quality of live orchestral performances to a broad spectrum ofthe community and foster appreciation and enjoyment of live professional orchestral music through concert performences andeducational and community programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.3M | $12M | $10.3M | $376K | — | -$988K |
| 2023 | $10.6M | $10.8M | $9.2M | $314K | — | -$288K |
| 2022 | $8.6M | $8.5M | $7.2M | $195K | $27K | -$25K |
| 2021 | $6.9M | $6.2M | $4.9M | $200K | $0 | -$109K |
| 2020 | $8.7M | $9.8M | $6.8M | $1.2M | — | -$845K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.4M from 27 charities:
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$436K
- Edmonton Symphony & Concert Hall Foundation$183K
- The Stollery Charitable Foundation$150K
- The Robbins Foundation Canada$150K
- Eberlein Family Charitable Foundation$100K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$80K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$69K
- Canada Gives$50K
- Qube Charitable Foundation$30K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$24K
- The John and Dianne Storey Family Foundation$20K
- Music Education Charity of Canada$19K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$8,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$7,251
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,490
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$2,500
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$2,000
- ATCO Electric Epic$1,300
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$789
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$450
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$300
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions29
- Total compensation, all staff$3M
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 Edmonton Symphony Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118894203RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.