Ryga Festival Society
Publicly funded institution · Summerland, British Columbia · BN 781417126RR0001 · Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($78,859) as filed with the CRA.
Ryga Festival Society is a charitable organization based in Summerland, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $70K in revenue and $79K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 64% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $17K.
Compared with 89 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The society held its annual multidisciplinary arts festival (mainly words theatre music) in summerland bc september 20 through 24 2024. Pre- and post-festival events were held during 2024 to continue to support artists keep festival brand awareness outside festival dates and bring arts performance to the south okanagan. Programming revolved around the mission statement of the ryga arts festival of bringing attention to underserved and marginalized voices and promoting social change through the arts. This included theatre performances writing workshops live music music workshops aut…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $70K | $79K | $42K | — | $0 | $4,414 |
| 2023 | $94K | $84K | $71K | — | $0 | $15K |
| 2022 | $94K | $108K | $76K | — | — | $3,076 |
| 2021 | $91K | $82K | $68K | — | — | $19K |
| 2020 | $52K | $51K | $48K | — | — | $9,899 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $17K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$1,150
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dorthea Atwater (vice-president); Peter Hay (director); Calvin Meiklejohn (president); Caroline McKay (secretary); Donna Wong-Juliani (director); Kim Stansfield (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ryga Festival Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 781417126RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.