Chor Leoni Choral Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 891227084RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,651,970) as filed with the CRA.
Chor Leoni Choral Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 12% from government, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $371K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 5% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 86% of that peer group.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $350K in 2024, the largest being $350K to Chor Leoni Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $926K in 2020 to $1.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Chor leoni inspires audiences trains artists educates youth and advances the choral art form by creating promoting and presenting choral music. The organization accomplishes this through a series of concerts digital presentations educational programs for youth and adults.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $113K | $11K | $350K | $599K |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $180K | $9,126 | $540K | $577K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.1M | — | — | $150K | $506K |
| 2021 | $830K | $763K | — | — | $106K | $428K |
| 2020 | $926K | $785K | — | — | — | $254K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $350K to 1 qualified donee:
- Chor Leoni Foundation$350K
Received $371K from 23 charities:
- David Spencer Endowment Encouragement Fund (2013)$200K
- Vancouver Foundation$85K
- RBC Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- Chor Leoni Foundation$9,021
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,936
- Seedlings Foundation$5,000
- Aron Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Deux Mille Foundation$5,000
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The Howard Foundation$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,961
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundation$2,500
- The Christopher Foundation$2,500
- The Hamber Foundation$2,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- Michael and Inna O'Brian Family Foundation$600
- Aqueduct Foundation$500
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$500
- BenefAction Foundation$250
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$100
- London Community Foundation$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rick Bennett (member); John Geddes (vice-chair); Marni Johnson (board member); Ted Steiner (board member); Leanne Denis (board member); Peter Joosten (board member); Fred Lee (board member); Patrick Cotter (chair); Wendy Enns (treasurer); Sandy Jakab (secretary); Ian Farthing (board member); Stephen Nestmann (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chor Leoni Choral Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891227084RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.