Bard on the Beach Theatre Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 129644928RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,538,998) as filed with the CRA.
Bard on the Beach Theatre Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending October 31, 2024, it reported $10.7M in revenue and $10.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 5% from government. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.8M.
Compared with 39 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 46% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 27 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.7M in 2020 to $10.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Bard on the Beach Theatre Society performs four full productions and additional special events on professional stages in Vanier Park each summer for an audience of approximately 100 000 people. Bard on the Beach Theatre Society's ongoing education program includes summer workshops in Shakespeare performance for more than 250 children and youth as well as workshops in more than 50 schools throughout BC's Lower Mainland
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.7M | $10.5M | $8.6M | $508K | $0 | $3M |
| 2023 | $10.2M | $10.2M | $8.5M | $303K | — | $2.9M |
| 2022 | $10M | $9.4M | $7.7M | $448K | — | $2.9M |
| 2021 | $4.4M | $4M | $2.6M | $249K | — | $2.3M |
| 2020 | $3.7M | $4.2M | $2.8M | $250K | — | $1.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.8M from 29 charities:
- April 1 Foundation$1.1M
- The Jarislowsky Foundation/la Fondation Jarislowsky$125K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$63K
- Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation$60K
- Vancouver Foundation$57K
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundation$50K
- Perrinham Foundation$50K
- The Christopher Foundation$50K
- RBC Foundation$28K
- The Howard Foundation$25K
- Nicola Family Foundation$25K
- Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation$25K
- The London Drugs Foundation$25K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$15K
- BenefAction Foundation$11K
- Conam Charitable Foundation$10K
- Canada Gives$10K
- Face the World Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,441
- ZLC Foundation$6,000
- Angus Reid Institute$5,000
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation$5,000
- R & J Stern Family Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,302
- John Hardie Mitchell Family Foundation$3,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions27
- Total compensation, all staff$5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John McCulloch (president); Marian Ngo (director); Rebecca Catley (director); Glenn Ives (director); Shona McGlashan (vice president); Arv Sooch (director); Mark Fancourt-Smith (director); Derral Moriyama (director); Ainslie Hurd (secretary); Andrew Bianchini (treasurer); Stephen Ng (director); Kam Raman (director); James Kitamura (director); Lynda Farmer (director); Gordon Plottel (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bard on the Beach Theatre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129644928RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.