Federation of Canadian Music Festivals
Charitable organization · Saint John, New Brunswick · BN 118913946RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($151,693) as filed with the CRA.
Federation of Canadian Music Festivals is a charitable organization based in Saint John, New Brunswick, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $101K in revenue and $152K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 39% from donations. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $21K.
Compared with 724 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $509 in 2020 to $101K in 2024.
In its own words
The charity organizes and manages the annual national music festival to provide a venue for the final stage of competition for musical competitors who have previously been successful in local and provincial music festival competitions. The festival involves 60-70 young musicians from across canada.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $101K | $152K | $115K | — | — | $117K |
| 2023 | $70K | $131K | $107K | $20K | — | $168K |
| 2022 | $89K | $109K | $96K | $8,952 | — | $229K |
| 2021 | $61K | $51K | $44K | — | — | $249K |
| 2020 | $509 | $24K | $17K | — | — | $178K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $21K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Federation of Canadian Music Festivals’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118913946RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.