British Columbia · Registered charity
AFRICAN STAGES ASSOCIATION
AFRICAN STAGES ASSOCIATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$92,543 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$172k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- C$93k
- Net assets
- C$160k
What African Stages Association does
Ongoing programs
ACTIVITIES/SERVICES • On the Wings of Proverbs • Poetry Nights • Story-Powering Our Youth Theatre • On the Wings of Stories Performance • Stories with Elders • Tohio Vlog • Annual Storytelling and Cultural Festival • Annual Storytelling Symposium • Annual Fundraising Night • Entertaining and Feeding the Homeless • Annual African Heritage/Black History Month Storytelling and Cultural Show
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from C$76k to C$0 (−100%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 79% · 2018 76% · 2019 71% · 2020 82% · 2021 723% · 2022 100% · 2023 27% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of AFRICAN STAGES ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell C$20k → C$215.
From the CRA filings of AFRICAN STAGES ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AFRICAN STAGES ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AFRICAN STAGES ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
99% of AFRICAN STAGES ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$17k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AFRICAN STAGES ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 689 education in the arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 689 education in the arts nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government revenue AFRICAN STAGES ASSOCIATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 94% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like AFRICAN STAGES ASSOCIATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In British Columbia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds AFRICAN STAGES ASSOCIATION?
- AFRICAN STAGES ASSOCIATION (British Columbia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$92,543 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFRICAN STAGES ASSOCIATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$92,543 in grants to AFRICAN STAGES ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN STAGES ASSOCIATION?
- VANCOUVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN STAGES ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register