Push International Performing Arts Festival Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 829549948RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,694,534) as filed with the CRA.
Push International Performing Arts Festival Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, 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 April 30, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 60% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $41K.
Compared with 90 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
The push international performing arts festival society produces the annual push festival in january and additional activities throughout the year. Nearly 10 000 people attended the annual festival which presents approximately 150 events over 21 days across multiple venues. The festival is supported by the work of more that 100 volunteers and typically welcomes 40-50 international arts industry delegates from up to 10 countries. Push also produces a youth program and the accessible push program to ensure audience members with varied accessibility needs and incomes have access to performances …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.7M | $1.4M | $87K | — | $158K |
| 2023 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $1.3M | $76K | — | $231K |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1.1M | $60K | — | $192K |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $932K | $559K | $87K | $500 | $99K |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.8M | $1.4M | $106K | — | -$108K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $41K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$419K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Push International Performing Arts Festival Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 829549948RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.