New Music Concerts
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119056448RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($353,327) as filed with the CRA.
New Music Concerts is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, 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 May 31, 2024, it reported $430K in revenue and $353K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 53% from government, 44% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $243K.
Compared with 355 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 85% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $225K in 2020 to $430K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
New music concerts is involved with presenting contemporary music concerts international works and world premieres with a broad range of contemporary classic works with the objectives of promoting interest in the art of music and contemporary music ideas and to perform preserve publish record and broadcast all forms of contemporary music.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $430K | $353K | $329K | — | — | $154K |
| 2023 | $326K | $252K | $232K | — | — | $77K |
| 2022 | $356K | $425K | $398K | — | — | $3,315 |
| 2021 | $283K | $244K | $226K | — | — | $72K |
| 2020 | $225K | $180K | — | $149K | — | $33K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $243K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$143K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ljubomir Bulat (secretary-treasurer); David Jaeger (director); Doina Popescu (president); Kerrie Blaise (director); Eliot Britton (director); Sheree Spencer (director); Erica Russell (director); Carmen Steinberg (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from New Music Concerts’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119056448RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.