Women for Music Society
Charitable organization · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 898034905RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($52,135) as filed with the CRA.
Women for Music Society is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $73K in revenue and $52K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $720.
Compared with 3,624 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 81% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $47K in 2020 to $73K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Sale of used donated books sale of used donated postage stamps
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $73K | $52K | $16K | — | $36K | $50K |
| 2023 | $23K | $45K | $6,238 | — | $39K | $29K |
| 2022 | $38K | $27K | $12K | — | $16K | $51K |
| 2021 | $11K | $4,384 | $1,140 | $169 | $3,075 | $41K |
| 2020 | $47K | $5,951 | — | $3,882 | — | — |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $720 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Anne Laybolt (chair); Christina Dadford Simpson (treasurer); Beverley Efthymiadis (past chair); Margaret Swift (website newsletter book); Brenda Rice-Thomson (recording secretary); Mary Eden Bassett (corresponding secretary); Patricia Lawrence (programming chair); Shirley Dean (symphony representative); Margaret Foster (membershi[/telephone); Sally Osbert (social committee chair); Oriel Maclennan (archivist); Madeleine Johnson (publicity); Bec Hudson (book sale chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Women for Music Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 898034905RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.