Hamilton Literary Festival Association
Publicly funded institution · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 811174051RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($108,518) as filed with the CRA.
Hamilton Literary Festival Association is a charitable organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. 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 May 31, 2024, it reported $118K in revenue and $109K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 54% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $12K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 97% of that peer group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $73K in 2020 to $118K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Our goal is to educate our community about canada's reach and diverse literary heritage while also providing a platform for local writers to share their work. In furtherance of this goal we produce an annual literary festival that includes reading events. Writing workshops author interviews panel discussions and youth events. We partner with other local organizations including the hamilton wentworth district school board the hamilton public library the litlive reading series the hamilton poetry centre hamilton youth poets the hamilton film festival and the hamilton philharmonic orches…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $118K | $109K | $60K | $36K | — | $35K |
| 2023 | $91K | $88K | $52K | — | $0 | $25K |
| 2022 | $88K | $78K | $40K | — | — | $22K |
| 2021 | $74K | $70K | $7,171 | — | — | $12K |
| 2020 | $73K | $47K | $23K | — | — | $32K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $12K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Melanie Cummings (chair); Anuja Varghese (vice chair); Selena Middleton (director); Mark Cummings (treasurer); Lorrie Bowman (director); Stephanie Hope-Lawlor (director); Fareh Malek (director); Mary Ellen Ruddell (secretary); Lynne Sargent (director); Samantha Terry (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hamilton Literary Festival Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 811174051RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.