The Calgary Folk Club
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 119218006RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($194,271) as filed with the CRA.
The Calgary Folk Club is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $213K in revenue and $194K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 45% from government. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1,237.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 63% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The calgary folk club presents an annual series of 12-13 music concerts featuring local canadian and international music artists. The concerts are presented at a nightly-rented community hall and are open to patrons purchasing a season pass or single-event tickets. The objective of the club is to foster live music culture in the calgary area and support/promote upcoming and mature performing artists through the presentation of public concerts featuring a variety of music genres: traditional and contemporary folk blues bluegrass zydeco western swing etc. The calgary folk club is a found…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $213K | $194K | $173K | — | — | — |
| 2023 | $107K | $194K | $168K | — | — | $91K |
| 2022 | $151K | $132K | $115K | — | — | — |
| 2021 | $96K | $52K | $40K | — | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $163K | $147K | $147K | $0 | — | $205K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1,237 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Janet Boydol (president); Winnick Winnick (treasurer); Joanna Allard (secretary); John Bazinet (director (general manager)); Suze Casey (director (artistic director)); John Lund; John Robertson (director (livestream)).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Calgary Folk Club’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119218006RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.