Battery Opera Performing Arts Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 888370731RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($227,117) as filed with the CRA.
Battery Opera Performing Arts Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $224K in revenue and $227K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 82% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $337.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
battery opera performance (BOP) is a Vancouver-based arts society that supports the work and projects of co-founders Lee Su-Feh and David McIntosh who continue to lead the organisation as Artistic Director and Artistic Producer respectively. BOP was incorporated as a non-profit arts organisation in 1995. BOP’s mandate is to advance and foster the creation and development of dance theatre music and performance especially those that integrate more than one discipline; to increase public interest and appreciation of performing arts through performances and educational initiatives. The orga…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $224K | $227K | $164K | — | $0 | $14K |
| 2023 | $281K | $289K | $234K | $0 | — | $18K |
| 2022 | $255K | $245K | $194K | — | — | $25K |
| 2021 | $201K | $205K | $156K | — | — | $15K |
| 2020 | $211K | $217K | $174K | — | — | $19K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $337 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$126K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Battery Opera Performing Arts Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888370731RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.