Lotus Centre for Special Music Education
Publicly funded institution · Kanata, Ontario · BN 824271480RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($586,816) as filed with the CRA.
Lotus Centre for Special Music Education is a charitable organization based in Kanata, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 $558K in revenue and $587K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from government, 26% from other charities. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $179K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 51% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $326K in 2020 to $558K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Private and group music lessons (in-person and online); research projects; professional development activities for community educators; camps (in-person and online); adaptive music concerts
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $558K | $587K | $510K | $17K | — | -$42K |
| 2023 | $497K | — | $440K | $8,087 | — | -$12K |
| 2022 | $458K | $475K | $448K | $697 | — | -$17K |
| 2021 | $503K | $416K | $382K | $0 | $0 | $529 |
| 2020 | $326K | $382K | $342K | $0 | $0 | -$87K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $179K from 10 charities:
- The Azrieli Foundation$95K
- The Lewitt Family Foundation$17K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$16K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$14K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$14K
- Ottawa Dragon Boat Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,358
- The Harry E Foster Charitable Foundation$5,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$642
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$397
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$357K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Elizabeth Simpson (chair); James McGowan (secretary); Sandra Markovic (director); Muriel Mignerat (director); Gail Christopher (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lotus Centre for Special Music Education’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 824271480RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.