The Cooking Fire Theatre Festival
Publicly funded institution · Millvale, Prince Edward Island · BN 861750966RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($528,711) as filed with the CRA.
The Cooking Fire Theatre Festival is a charitable organization based in Millvale, Prince Edward Island, 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 October 31, 2024, it reported $551K in revenue and $529K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from donations, 77% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $65K.
Compared with 355 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $39K in 2020 to $551K in 2024.
In its own words
The core program of the cooking fire theatre festival is producing the river clyde arts season in new glasgow prince edward island which runs from june through december of each year. The flagship event of the river clyde arts season is the river clyde pageant (est. 2016) which rallies hundreds of local creatives volunteers and professional artists of all ages in the making of a magical outdoor theatre specticle performed at the end of july and beginning of august each year. Complementing the pageant is the vibrant and eclectic sharing the field harvest festival (est. 2021) in october an…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $551K | $529K | $503K | — | — | $71K |
| 2023 | $506K | $478K | $435K | $1,800 | — | $83K |
| 2022 | $365K | $366K | — | — | $500 | $38K |
| 2021 | $168K | $156K | $153K | — | — | $38K |
| 2020 | $39K | $37K | $34K | — | $500 | $26K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $65K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$169K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Cooking Fire Theatre Festival’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 861750966RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.