Wright Family Performing Arts and Entertainment Centre Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Strathroy, Ontario · BN 812614303RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($154,793) as filed with the CRA.
Wright Family Performing Arts and Entertainment Centre Foundation is a charitable organization based in Strathroy, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $395K in revenue and $155K in expenditures.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $6,514 in 2024, the largest being $5,000 to Strathroy District Collegiate Institute Alumni Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $206K in 2020 to $395K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The mission of the organization is construct a performing arts centre and promote the arts within strathroy-caradoc.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $395K | $155K | $148K | — | $6,514 | $4M |
| 2023 | $539K | $165K | $165K | — | — | $3.8M |
| 2022 | $255K | $525K | $525K | — | — | $3.4M |
| 2021 | $292K | $54K | $54K | — | — | $3.7M |
| 2020 | $206K | $62K | $51K | — | $12K | $3.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $6,514 to 2 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kimberley Oliver (director); Wanda Needham-Dack (secretary); Keith Blackwell (president); Sarah Ford (director); Frank Kennes (treasurer); Amanda Kopcic (director); Kimberley Campbell (director); Karen Chalmers (director); John Pammer (director); Nancy Fernandes-Giles (director); Robert Gee (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Wright Family Performing Arts and Entertainment Centre Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 812614303RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.