Suddenly Listen Music Society
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 895839710RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($89,342) as filed with the CRA.
Suddenly Listen Music Society is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under education in the 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 $102K in revenue and $89K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $48.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers.
In its own words
Suddenlylisten music society conducts workshops and outreach including clinics a podcast residencies and other projects open to artists youth and other community members to explore music sound and listening. Suddenlylisten music society also presents and produces collaborative concerts of improvised and new art music and multidisciplinary performance for the general public in halifax ns as well as through touring to other centres.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $102K | $89K | $63K | — | — | $53K |
| 2023 | $80K | $94K | $80K | — | — | $43K |
| 2022 | $65K | $58K | $46K | — | — | $11K |
| 2021 | $70K | $61K | $50K | — | — | $20K |
| 2020 | $72K | $72K | $61K | — | — | $11K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $48 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$37K
Schedule 3 of its 2022 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Suddenly Listen Music Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 895839710RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.