MID Island Performing Arts Festival Society
Charitable organization · Nanaimo, British Columbia · BN 119279784RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($67,746) as filed with the CRA.
MID Island Performing Arts Festival Society is a charitable organization based in Nanaimo, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $61K in revenue and $68K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations. In 2022, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $1,000.
Compared with 986 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 58% of peers.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $139K in 2020 to $61K in 2024.
In its own words
The charity continues to conduct and administer an annual festival programs and activities for students of various musical speech arts and dance sessions for adjudication by professional teachers. The professional adjudicators viewed and graded students plus selected awards participants to perform at the annual performing arts bc festival. The activities cover a period of 3 months each year plus preparation time throughout the year. As in past years the society operations (except for the contracted adjudicators) were done entirely by volunteer members.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $61K | $68K | $63K | — | — | $128K |
| 2023 | $76K | $68K | $3,949 | — | — | $135K |
| 2022 | $84K | $59K | $58K | — | — | $115K |
| 2021 | $35K | $30K | $29K | — | — | $133K |
| 2020 | $139K | $132K | $123K | — | — | $149K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Received $1,000 from 1 charity:
- Beech Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from MID Island Performing Arts Festival Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119279784RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.