The Alberta Theatre Projects Society
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 118781236RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,744,085) as filed with the CRA.
The Alberta Theatre Projects Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 47% from government, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $194K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 82% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $3.3M in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Alberta Theatre Projects is a Calgary- based not-for-profit professional theatre organization that celebrates the art of live theatre. From our home in the Martha Cohen Theatre we create world class contemporary theatre with a focus on idea-driven works plays by Canadian playwrights and contemporary theatre from around the world. We are a national leader in new play development. Programming is driven by the collusion of diverging ideas points of view class gender or cultural perspectives and is selected from the finest Canadian and International plays and new works commission and devel…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.3M | $17K | — | -$35K |
| 2023 | $2.7M | $3M | $2.6M | $15K | — | -$130K |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $2.8M | $2.5M | $38K | — | $213K |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $1.6M | $1.3M | $50K | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $3.3M | $3.1M | $2.3M | $136K | — | $79K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $194K from 11 charities:
- BenefAction Foundation$56K
- Prairie Crocus Foundation$50K
- The Calgary Foundation$26K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$14K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,468
- Aqueduct Foundation$3,750
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,563
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- Pacific Nuclear Charitable Foundation$800
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
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$827K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Clare Birks (co-vice president finance); Emily Campbell (director); Amanda Espinoza (vice president governance); Daorcy La Bray (vice president recovery); Alex Macwilliam (director); Stuart Parnell (director); Vishal Saini (past president); Alane Smith (vice president/ ass. secretary); Karen Towsley (secretary); Arlette Watwood (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Alberta Theatre Projects Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118781236RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.