Bowen Island Museum & Archives
Publicly funded institution · Bowen Island, British Columbia · BN 118814136RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($113,952) as filed with the CRA.
Bowen Island Museum & Archives is a charitable organization based in Bowen Island, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $114K in revenue and $114K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 16% from donations, 75% from government, 7% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $28K.
Compared with 686 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $42K in 2020 to $114K in 2024.
In its own words
Museum: Collecting preserving and then presenting Bowen Island artefacts through a series of seasonally changing exhibits. Archives: Collecting preserving and making available Bowen Island photographs documents maps newspapers and interviews with long term residents through onsite visits or the internet. The Archivist assists research for local residents. A major ongoing project is the digitisation of the Archives' media so that they are available online. In addition a new book on Bowen Island is in preparation for publication. Both the Museum and Archives remain active in outreach progr…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $114K | $114K | $106K | $0 | $0 | $170K |
| 2023 | $95K | $93K | $85K | — | $0 | $171K |
| 2022 | $92K | $96K | $87K | — | — | $171K |
| 2021 | $154K | $109K | $101K | — | — | $176K |
| 2020 | $42K | $55K | $47K | — | $0 | $131K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $28K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$47K
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 Bowen Island Museum & Archives’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118814136RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.