Halifax Summer Opera Festival Association
Charitable organization · Lunenburg, Nova Scotia · BN 845278522RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($4,562) as filed with the CRA.
Halifax Summer Opera Festival Association is a charitable organization based in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $2,783 in revenue and $4,562 in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 47% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $720.
Compared with 986 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 14% of peers.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $33K in 2020 to $2,783 in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
In the fall of 2022 we held auditions as we expanded the program from one opera to two. In august 2023 after 2.5 weeks of rehearsal we presented 8 public ticketed performances of two operas (la jolie parfumeuse and serse) at the lillian piercey concert hall and two public educational lecture recitals at the halifax central library with free admission. All rehearsals and most of the performances were held at the maritime conservatory of performing arts. Hsof was supported by the work of 5 volunteers working front of house at our venues. We offered significant reductions in performance fee…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2,783 | $4,562 | $2,206 | — | — | — |
| 2023 | $40K | $46K | $37K | — | — | -$4,799 |
| 2022 | $35K | $34K | $29K | — | — | $1,168 |
| 2021 | $21K | $12K | $1,163 | — | — | -$19K |
| 2020 | $33K | $26K | $10K | — | — | -$25K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $720 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrew Pelrine (president); David Mosey (secretary); Jane Gordon (officer); Andrew Pickett (past president); Giancarlo Scalia (officer); Christina Dadford (officer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Halifax Summer Opera Festival Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 845278522RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.