Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival
Publicly funded institution · Guelph, Ontario · BN 873263511RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($299,759) as filed with the CRA.
Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival is a charitable organization based in Guelph, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $320K in revenue and $300K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 54% from government, 9% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $87K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 21% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 83% of that peer group. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $174K in 2020 to $320K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Promoting canadian contemporary dance artists and their audiences with the state of the arts program and venues in different locations by organizing performances arts education activities promoting events and selling tickets.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $320K | $300K | $210K | $1,006 | — | $42K |
| 2023 | $295K | $312K | $219K | — | — | $22K |
| 2022 | $283K | $274K | $192K | — | — | $40K |
| 2021 | $231K | $204K | $143K | $336 | — | $31K |
| 2020 | $174K | $158K | $111K | $302 | — | $4,305 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $87K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$132K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carey West (president); Hannah James (treasurer); Hayley Moss (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 873263511RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.