Francis Winspear Centre for Music
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 118893619RR0001 · Public Amenities
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($6,449,507) as filed with the CRA.
Francis Winspear Centre for Music is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under public amenities. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $13.4M in revenue and $6.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations, 57% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $989K.
Compared with 54 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 13% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 87% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 33 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Providing venue and event space to the public private groups corporate functions community groups art organizations and travelingoerformers prsenting unique concerts to the capital region.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $13.4M | $6.4M | $4.1M | $130K | — | $79.4M |
| 2023 | $13.3M | $5.7M | $4.3M | $110K | $2,450 | $85.3M |
| 2022 | $17.6M | $4.8M | $3.7M | $84K | $6,562 | $64.9M |
| 2021 | $12.9M | $3.7M | $1.9M | $27K | — | $51.7M |
| 2020 | $11.5M | $5.2M | $3.1M | $590K | — | $42.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $989K from 13 charities:
- Edmonton Symphony & Concert Hall Foundation$442K
- Allard Foundation LTD.$200K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$163K
- The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fund$150K
- Gordon & Diane Buchanan Family Foundation$22K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,885
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$2,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$435
- Abundance Canada$300
- Toronto Foundation$300
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$205
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$49
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions33
- Total compensation, all staff$2.5M
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 Francis Winspear Centre for Music’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118893619RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.