Mission Folk Music Festival Society
Publicly funded institution · Mission, British Columbia · BN 128544509RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($441,850) as filed with the CRA.
Mission Folk Music Festival Society is a charitable organization based in Mission, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under 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 September 30, 2024, it reported $445K in revenue and $442K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 51% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $17K.
Compared with 355 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 94% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $103K in 2020 to $445K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Music Festival Workshops Concerts Collaborations
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $445K | $442K | $430K | $7,031 | $0 | $0 |
| 2023 | $477K | $426K | $362K | $4,683 | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $469K | $509K | $428K | $4,282 | $0 | $0 |
| 2021 | $209K | $195K | $175K | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| 2020 | $103K | $77K | $70K | $1,000 | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $17K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$91K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Vissers (director); Aaron Levy (treasurer); Mitch Freestone-Smith (president); Brian Duggan (secretary); Les Hatklin (director); Pierre Richez (vice president); Emmanuel Asprakis (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mission Folk Music Festival Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 128544509RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.