Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Society
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 872855903RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($201,162) as filed with the CRA.
Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $161K in revenue and $201K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from government, 82% from other charities. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $14.
Compared with 724 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 59% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Mountain Standard Time Performative Art (MST) is committed to presenting embodied artworks from a variety of disciplines that reflect current issues and practices in contemporary art. Through exhibitions performances workshops and biennials MST fosters the development of performative art practices among local national and international artistic communities. MST's role in presenting professional high quality cultural experiences continues to grow increasing opportunities for education and critical discourse surrounding contemporary performative practices.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $161K | $201K | $171K | — | — | $29K |
| 2023 | $220K | $211K | $180K | — | — | $69K |
| 2022 | $198K | $194K | $165K | — | — | $60K |
| 2021 | $153K | $133K | $113K | — | — | $56K |
| 2020 | $138K | $130K | $110K | — | — | $37K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $14 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$123K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Verna Mah (secretary); Marina Crane (honorary); Juan Ramirez (director); Samuel Obadero (president); Twinkle Banerjee (vice president); MelVee X (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 872855903RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.