Chinese Canadian Museum Society of British Columbia
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 741325534RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,385,397) as filed with the CRA.
Chinese Canadian Museum Society of British Columbia is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $6M in revenue and $4.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 33% from donations, 62% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.4M.
Compared with 276 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 22% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1,000 in 2024, the largest being $1,000 to Vancouver Chinatown Foundation for Community Revitalization. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
The entity is providing guided tours program to introduce current exhibitions and the heritage building - wing sang building. The programs are open to public visitors for art and cultural promotion purpose honouring the history contributions and heritage of chinese candians. Chinese canadian museum society of b.c. Is providing a series of temporary/travelling exhibitions to help preserve and promote chinese canadian's history. The entity is also planning cultural events to provide the public an opptunity to feel traditional chinese festivals. School and teacher programs family programs and …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2023–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6M | $4.4M | $3M | $232K | $1,000 | $12.2M |
| 2023 | $4.3M | — | $1.7M | $216K | $2.5M | $10M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1,000 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $2.4M from 20 charities:
- Lee Tak Wai Foundation$1M
- RBC Foundation$600K
- David and Dorothy Lam Foundation$500K
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$50K
- Vancouver Foundation$45K
- Aqueduct Foundation$30K
- Canucks for Kids Fund$25K
- The London Drugs Foundation$25K
- Canada Gives$23K
- Vancity Community Foundation$20K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$20K
- The Rennie Foundation$10K
- Chan Family Foundation$10K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$6,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,713
- The Ouellette Family Foundation$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$518
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$496
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$30
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alan Lowe (director); Brian McBay (director); Burton Lee (director); Christina Chang (director); Claire Avison (director); Grace Wong (director); Guo Ding (director); Imogene LIM (director); John Adams (director); Randall Wong (director); Sandra Singh (director); Ted Lee (director); Tiffanie Ting (director); Tung Chang (director); Wendy Lee (director); William Ma (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chinese Canadian Museum Society of British Columbia’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 741325534RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.