Prince Edward County Arts Council
Charitable organization · Picton, Ontario · BN 123646499RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($508,466) as filed with the CRA.
Prince Edward County Arts Council is a charitable organization based in Picton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $497K in revenue and $508K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations, 14% from government, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $84K.
Compared with 724 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 51% 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 (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $148K in 2020 to $497K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
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Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $497K | $508K | $407K | $507 | — | $60K |
| 2023 | $427K | $452K | $343K | $456 | — | $71K |
| 2022 | $303K | $303K | $171K | $1,007 | — | $132K |
| 2021 | $203K | $204K | $119K | — | — | $135K |
| 2020 | $148K | $157K | $65K | $6,262 | — | $136K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $84K from 9 charities:
- McLean Smits Family Foundation$28K
- John M. & Bernice Parrott Foundation Inc.$25K
- The Lewitt Family Foundation$15K
- Blue Crane Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The MacMillan Family Foundation$5,000
- Council for Business & Arts in Canada$3,366
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,611
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,229
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$250
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$136K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Julia Howell (chair); Erin Hewitson (director at large); Catelyn Thornton (secretary); Andrea Piller (director at large); Talitha Tolles (director at large); Christine Searle (director at large); Paul Nethercott (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Prince Edward County Arts Council’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 123646499RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.