Kiwanis Music Festival Charitable Trust
Charitable organization · Stratford, Ontario · BN 887047199RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($148,620) as filed with the CRA.
Kiwanis Music Festival Charitable Trust is a charitable organization based in Stratford, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $107K in revenue and $149K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 44% from donations, 6% from government. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $50K.
Compared with 724 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 91% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 85% of that peer group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $39K in 2020 to $107K in 2024.
In its own words
The music festival has expanded to be a festival of the Performing Arts for the purpose of encouraging the study and development of the Arts in children and youth through adjudicated performances. The festival includes playing musical instruments theatrical voice and dance.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $107K | $149K | $145K | $828 | — | $252K |
| 2023 | $139K | $74K | $72K | $394 | — | $272K |
| 2022 | $68K | $59K | $59K | — | — | $50K |
| 2021 | $57K | $61K | $61K | — | — | $38K |
| 2020 | $39K | $34K | $34K | — | — | $30K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $50K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$9,021
Schedule 3 of its 2021 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kiwanis Music Festival Charitable Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887047199RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.