The Alberta Music Festival Association
Charitable organization · Wetaskiwin, Alberta · BN 119211696RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($182,096) as filed with the CRA.
The Alberta Music Festival Association is a charitable organization based in Wetaskiwin, Alberta, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $190K in revenue and $182K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 12% from government, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5,850.
Compared with 724 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 65% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $78K in 2020 to $190K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The alberta music festival is comprised of 36 local member festivals. Each local festival hosts its own music/speech festival within alberta. Volunteer base is over 300 and we have 400 community serving over 82 000 amateur musicians. The association runs a provincial festival each spring with participants from all 36 local festivals performing in piano string vocal guitar brass woodwind musical theatre speech choral speech school choirs and community choirs. The association provides cash scholarships plaques and a workshop style adjudication for its participants. We hire adjudicators…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $190K | $182K | $159K | $4,273 | — | $0 |
| 2023 | $255K | $252K | — | — | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $122K | $98K | — | — | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $104K | $83K | $67K | — | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $78K | $75K | $53K | — | — | — |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $5,850 from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$47K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
RJ Chambers (past president); Jennifer Thomas (president); Carolyn Steeves (vice president); Beverly Sweet (treasurer); Rhonda Sylvester (director); Janelle Orr (director); Jaimee Jarvie (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Alberta Music Festival Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119211696RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.