Victoria Festival of Authors Society
Publicly funded institution · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 762075695RR0001 · Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($109,820) as filed with the CRA.
Victoria Festival of Authors Society is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, 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 $117K in revenue and $110K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 60% from government, 13% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $16K.
Compared with 355 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 51% of peers. 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 $70K in 2020 to $117K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Victoria Festival of Authors is Vancouver Island’s largest annual celebration of books and book lovers. Our hybrid festival offers in-person programming of regional authors most offered by livestream for those viewing from home as well as virtual programming of authors from around Canada. Programming includes readings and themed panel discussions enabling authors to discuss their writing process and to engage with festival attendees in informal settings about a broad range of literary arts. Published authors and emerging authors appear together in panel events helping to introduce new div…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $117K | $110K | $87K | — | — | $77K |
| 2023 | $96K | $104K | $76K | — | — | $70K |
| 2022 | $100K | $88K | $77K | — | — | $78K |
| 2021 | $126K | $92K | $53K | $1,000 | — | $65K |
| 2020 | $70K | $50K | $50K | — | $0 | $31K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $16K from 3 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$36K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kegan McFadden (past president); Yvonne Blomer (president); Richard Ketchen (director and treasurer); Brianna Bock (director and secretary); Barbara Pelman (director); Cynthia Woodman-Kerkham (director); Gweneth Doane (director); Isabel Jones (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Victoria Festival of Authors Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 762075695RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.