Ontario Band Association
Charitable organization · Pickering, Ontario · BN 856996228RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($226,687) as filed with the CRA.
Ontario Band Association is a charitable organization based in Pickering, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $244K in revenue and $227K in expenditures.
In 2020, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $150.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 78% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $68K in 2020 to $244K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The ontario band association (oba) is a network of music leaders dedicated to inspiring enriching and connecting students and educators to share explore and enhance the experience of music through bands. The oba hosts performance beginning band and wind conductors symposium offers honour band performance opportunities hosts the concerts band festival and partners with the canadian music centre in the wind composition project. The oba built on the success of the ontario provincial honour band and started two additional honour bands in the 2016 fiscal year: the oba/laurier elementary ho…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $244K | $227K | $216K | — | — | $17K |
| 2023 | $110K | $154K | $146K | — | — | $349 |
| 2022 | $65K | $75K | $68K | — | — | $44K |
| 2021 | $42K | $45K | $40K | — | — | $54K |
| 2020 | $68K | $92K | $84K | — | — | $58K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2020
Received $150 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$9,339
Schedule 3 of its 2022 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dan Austin (director); Steffan Brunette (secretary); Jennifer Creswell (director); Simone Gendron (director); Troy Jones (director); Alicia Kennedy (director); Matthew Peter (director); Jessica Puskar (director); Shashi Ramu (director); Chris Reesor (director); Matthew Rodnick (president); Lani Sommers (president elect); Angela Tran (past president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ontario Band Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 856996228RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.