New Westminster Symphony Society
Publicly funded institution · New Westminster, British Columbia · BN 889156790RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($33,642) as filed with the CRA.
New Westminster Symphony Society is a charitable organization based in New Westminster, 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 May 31, 2024, it reported $32K in revenue and $34K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations, 62% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2020, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $20K.
Compared with 89 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% of peers.
In its own words
Public music concerts by the new westminster symphony orchestra in 2023-2024 -oct 2023-movie music -dec 2023-dance into christmas -feb 2024-dvorak in prague -may 2024-a romantic period concert
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $32K | $34K | $34K | — | — | $55K |
| 2023 | $24K | $27K | $27K | — | — | $55K |
| 2022 | $21K | $48K | $48K | — | — | $55K |
| 2021 | $37K | $13K | $13K | — | — | $25K |
| 2020 | $42K | $42K | $42K | — | — | $25K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2020
Received $20K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from New Westminster Symphony Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889156790RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.