Alberta · Registered charity
FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC
FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC (Alberta) receives grants from 23 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,167,759 to it, the largest being EDMONTON SYMPHONY & CONCERT HALL FOUNDATION (C$1,531,641). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$13M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- C$4.2M
- Net assets
- C$79M
What Francis Winspear Centre for Music does
Ongoing programs
Providing venue and event space to the public private groups corporate functions community groups art organizations and travelingoerformers prsenting unique concerts to the capital region.
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 2021 to 2022, from C$55M to C$81M (+47%).
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 4% · 2018 18% · 2019 49% · 2020 66% · 2021 58% · 2022 75% · 2023 61% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (3% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose C$28k → C$1.3M.
From the CRA filings of FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 funders by total. 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
FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 81% · 2019 98% · 2020 31% · 2021 50% · 2022 39% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
36% of FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC's grant income comes from Alberta funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$805k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions 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
FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 95 public amenities nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 95 public amenities nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government revenue FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 57% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC
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 Alberta
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC?
- FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC (Alberta) receives grants from 23 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,167,759 to it, the largest being EDMONTON SYMPHONY & CONCERT HALL FOUNDATION (C$1,531,641). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 23 organizations giving C$4,167,759 in grants to FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC?
- EDMONTON SYMPHONY & CONCERT HALL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$1,531,641 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSIC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alberta.
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 23 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