Arts Umbrella Association
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 118852300RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($14,187,619) as filed with the CRA.
Arts Umbrella Association is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $14.3M in revenue and $14.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 5% from government, 24% from other charities. In 2024, 47 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.1M.
Compared with 39 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 46 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $7M in 2020 to $14.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 19 names.
In its own words
The arts umbrella association (association) is canada's visual and performing arts institute for young people from ages of 2 to 22. It provides programming annually in dance theatre music film media arts arts & design. The association provides tuition based programs outreach and community programs camps and special programs productions and school performances. The association is committed to making arts education accessible especially for children and youth in under-served neighbourhoods
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $14.3M | $14.2M | $10.7M | $1.2M | — | $19.8M |
| 2023 | $14M | $13.8M | $10.6M | $1.4M | — | $19.6M |
| 2022 | $14.4M | $13.7M | $9.4M | $1.5M | — | $19.4M |
| 2021 | $12.9M | $9.5M | $6.8M | $1.1M | — | $18.7M |
| 2020 | $7M | $7.3M | $5.5M | $918K | — | $15.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3.1M from 47 charities:
- April 1 Foundation$752K
- Arts Umbrella Foundation$745K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$419K
- Beedie Foundation$200K
- The Christopher Foundation$100K
- The Jules Foundation$75K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$60K
- Aqueduct Foundation$58K
- Chan Family Foundation$55K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- The Christopher Foundation$50K
- Canada Gives$45K
- Face the World Foundation$40K
- Vancouver Foundation$38K
- Buschlen Mowatt Nichol (1994) Foundation$38K
- PNG Enterprise Foundation$32K
- Audain Foundation$30K
- The Cedarhurst Foundation$30K
- Gadhia Family Foundation$29K
- Aron Charitable Foundation$25K
- Diamond Foundation$25K
- Timothy A. Young Family Foundation$25K
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$25K
- Wesik Family Foundation$25K
- BenefAction Foundation$24K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions46
- Total compensation, all staff$6.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Thomas Ferries (past chair); Nina Bains Cassils (director); Divyesh Gadhia (vice-chair); Christie Garofalo (director); James Harry (director); Howard Jang (director); Priscilla Lam (treasurer); David Sung (ex-officio arts umbrella f); Ruthie Shugarman (vice-chair); Terrence Turner (chair); Bruce Munro Wright (director); Cameron Conn (director); Chathan Lakshman (director); Celia Dawson (director); Christopher Posely (director); Sarah Sidhu (director); Johanie Marcoux (director); Martin Thibodeau (director); Josh Pekarsky (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Arts Umbrella Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118852300RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.