Music and Beyond Performing Arts
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 823241856RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,816,781) as filed with the CRA.
Music and Beyond Performing Arts is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $2M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 37% from donations, 24% from government. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $137K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 36% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 93% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $903K in 2020 to $2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Music and beyond is a classical music and multi-disciplinary arts organization. Music and beyond pursues links between music and other art forms and cultural disciplines including visual art drama poetry comedy circus dance architecture science law food and yoga.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2M | $1.8M | $1.4M | $9,326 | — | -$197K |
| 2023 | $885K | $1.7M | $1.2M | $8,984 | — | — |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $1.9M | $1.6M | $15K | — | -$22K |
| 2021 | $939K | $745K | $208K | $0 | $0 | -$26K |
| 2020 | $903K | $745K | $107K | $6,435 | $0 | -$152K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $137K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$214K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Valerie Douglas (president); Tanis Browning-Shelp (director); Gary Boyd (director); Christina Cameron (director); Leonard Edwards (treasurer); Ronald Stevenson (director); Ryan Robert (director); William Snyder (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Music and Beyond Performing Arts’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 823241856RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.