Arts Umbrella Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 889459798RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-02-28. Split of total expenditures ($918,458) as filed with the CRA.
Arts Umbrella Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending February 28, 2024, it reported $6.4M in revenue and $918K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from government, 54% from other charities. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $130K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 40% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $745K in 2024, the largest being $745K to Arts Umbrella Association. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $6.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
To support and fund arts umbrella association by assisting it to carry on its operations as an institution providing arts education to children teenagers and young adults in visual and performing arts; to advance education and the expression of the arts; to encourage participation programs and accessibility through scholarship and bursary distribution; and to raise funds for all programming purposes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.4M | $918K | — | — | $745K | $21.4M |
| 2023 | $903K | $1.7M | — | — | $1.5M | $15.9M |
| 2022 | $4.3M | $741K | — | — | $579K | $16.7M |
| 2021 | $5.7M | $417K | — | — | $282K | $13.1M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $1.1M | — | — | $944K | $7.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $745K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $130K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kimberly Cudney (vice-chair); David Sung (chair); Eric Watt (treasurer); Carol Henriquez (trustee); Martine Cunliffe (trustee); Tom Ferries (trustee); Priscilla Lam (trustee); Toby Mallinder (trustee); Thomas O'Shaughnessy (trustee); John Bunting (trustee); Terrence Turner (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Arts Umbrella Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889459798RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.