Theatre Calgary
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 119214013RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($13,742,872) as filed with the CRA.
Theatre Calgary is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $13.1M in revenue and $13.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 36% from donations, 11% from government. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $355K.
Compared with 39 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 26 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
Theatre calgary returned to in-person productions presenting four plays. By returning to in-person productions theatre calgary delivered student matinees relaxed performances and talk back tuesdays. Due to covid the td page to stage fetival was reduced in scope.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $13.1M | $13.7M | $12.5M | $296K | — | -$1.4M |
| 2023 | $8.2M | $9.4M | $1.3M | $135K | $250 | $0 |
| 2022 | $6.6M | $6.5M | $2.6M | $274K | $24K | $873K |
| 2021 | $5.3M | $4.1M | $905K | $393K | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $9M | $9.5M | $413K | $709K | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $355K from 15 charities:
- Cal Wenzel Family Foundation$200K
- RBC Foundation$35K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$33K
- The Calgary Foundation$24K
- Rozsa Foundation$14K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$13K
- BenefAction Foundation$12K
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,289
- The Anderson Family Foundation$5,000
- Carthy Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,132
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$2,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,816
- United Way of Calgary and Area$1,500
- Canada Gives$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- $40,000–79,99916 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions26
- Total compensation, all staff$6.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Kate Abbott (director); Joy Alford (co-vice chair gov. & nom. co); David Bradshaw (director); Stephen Curran (secretary); Brian Giang (chair of the audit and finance); Tricia Leadbeater (director); Cherry Ma (artistic committee chair); John Macaulay (director); Nalm Nerfand (development committee chair); Sade Laleye (director); Chad Newcombe (director); Kirsty Skfar (hr committtee chair); David Lui (marketing committee chair); Margo Randles (past chair); Craig Senyk (chair); Catherine Samuel (co-vice chair gov. & norm. co); Norm Schachar (director); Maggie Scholfield (facility committee chair).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Theatre Calgary’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119214013RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.