Nelson Fine Arts Centre Society
Publicly funded institution · Nelson, British Columbia · BN 865932669RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($243,866) as filed with the CRA.
Nelson Fine Arts Centre Society is a charitable organization based in Nelson, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $211K in revenue and $244K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 83% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $12K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $137K in 2020 to $211K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The Oxygen Art Centre (Nelson Fine Arts Centre Society) offers contemporary art programming through the Exhibition & Residency program and the Education program. The Exhibition & Residency program hosts 2-3 artists-in-residence per year supporting regional and visiting artists in process-based experimentation in their practice. This program also hosts 3-4 exhibitions in the main gallery 9-10 exhibitions by emerging regional artists in the O2 window vitrine exhibition space an annual mural installation in the centre's bathroom and publishes exhibition catalogues and printed matter (online…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $211K | $244K | $234K | — | — | $2,671 |
| 2023 | $213K | $218K | $207K | — | — | $36K |
| 2022 | $257K | $260K | $248K | — | — | $40K |
| 2021 | $180K | $167K | $153K | — | $750 | $43K |
| 2020 | $137K | $122K | $11K | — | — | $30K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $12K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$118K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carol Wallace (secretary); Alison Talbot-Kelly (director); Laurel Terlesky (director); Gabrielle Asbell (youth chair); Riya Post (director); Vincent Karcher (director); Christine Wallace (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nelson Fine Arts Centre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 865932669RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.