Comox Valley Art Gallery
Publicly funded institution · Courtenay, British Columbia · BN 118843291RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,331,473) as filed with the CRA.
Comox Valley Art Gallery is a charitable organization based in Courtenay, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under arts. 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 $1.3M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations, 80% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $21K.
Compared with 90 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (8 positions in that band). The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $686K in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
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Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.2M | $67K | — | $550K |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.4M | $1.2M | $68K | — | $855K |
| 2022 | $961K | $958K | $853K | $48K | — | $524K |
| 2021 | $978K | $862K | $767K | $43K | — | $419K |
| 2020 | $686K | $640K | $570K | $34K | — | $462K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $21K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$661K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Molina Dawson (director); Audrey Lundquist (secretary/treasurer); Jasmin Badrin (president); Alex Dunae (director); Rosslyn Shipp (director); Meaghan Cursons (vice-president); Brian Charlton (director); Judy Leblanc (director); Ekaterina Panayotof (director); Sheehan-Kalina Watson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Comox Valley Art Gallery’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118843291RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.