Thousand Faces Festival Association
Charitable organization · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 769401712RR0001 · Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($233,020) as filed with the CRA.
Thousand Faces Festival Association is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $231K in revenue and $233K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 44% from government. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $68K.
Compared with 724 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 69% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $94K in 2020 to $231K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The program provided by the society is its namesake: the Thousand Faces festival. In late June of every year we bring multicultural multidisciplinary artists together with culturally and economically diverse audiences for a festival of performance and participatory workshops that bring the public together to explore and enjoy the mythic stories and art forms at the foundations of the world’s diverse cultures. The festival has developed long-term relationships with several accomplished artists from under represented communities who taken together make up an ecosystem of art and myth. The fe…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $231K | $233K | $208K | $0 | $0 | $38K |
| 2023 | $196K | — | — | — | — | $38K |
| 2022 | $195K | $357K | $339K | $0 | $0 | $40K |
| 2021 | $435K | $254K | $213K | $0 | — | $50K |
| 2020 | $94K | $100K | $99K | $0 | $0 | -$830 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $68K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$85K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Owen Morris (vice president); Malcolm Roberts (director); Geeta Passi-Shourie (treasurer); Uju Mollel (secretary); Sasidevi Caster (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Thousand Faces Festival Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 769401712RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.