Machinenoisy Dance Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 803547140RR0001 · Education in the Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2020-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($33,415) as filed with the CRA.
Machinenoisy Dance Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, 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, 2020, it reported $38K in revenue and $33K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $5.
Compared with 946 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 21% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Because of covid 19 machinenoisy could not safely follow through with their plans to create a live performance process with lgbtq2+ youth at the roundhouse art centre in aug 2020 so instead they decided to dedicate their project funding to creating a video documentation of prox:imity re:mix. This project gave greater creative agency to some of the queer youth artists they worked with in the past as well as utilize past video footage they had from the 11 different iterations since 2012 to create a video documentation that highlights the extraordinary impact the project has had on the lives of…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2020
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $38K | $33K | $20K | — | — | -$10K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $5 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$16K
Schedule 3 of its 2020 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2020)
Alex Ferguson (chair); Diane Park (member); Rob Kitsos (member); Alana Murray (secretary).
As listed on its 2020 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Machinenoisy Dance Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 803547140RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.