Electric Company Theatre Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 872054168RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($366,227) as filed with the CRA.
Electric Company Theatre Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under education in the 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 April 30, 2024, it reported $392K in revenue and $366K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 77% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $36K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 13% 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.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1.1M in 2020 to $392K in 2024.
In its own words
The 2023-2024 Season was a busy development season as our next large show is in creation. We produced two workshops of our next large scale show The Fire Never Dies: the Tina Modotti Project which included free work in progress showings for the public; we presented a free community talk on the podcast we co-produced the previous year; we supported two works Diana Ross Dream and the development of a new Kidd Pivot show; we co-presented another year of the PXR virtual reality symposium and we again supported the Belfry Leadership training program for emerging IBPOC artistic leaders. Our commu…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $392K | $366K | $222K | $2,882 | — | $155K |
| 2023 | $515K | $599K | $470K | $2,604 | — | $129K |
| 2022 | $623K | $511K | $367K | $2,525 | — | $5,618 |
| 2021 | $522K | $449K | $256K | $1,856 | $0 | $74K |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $1M | $3,146 | — | $27K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $36K from 5 charities:
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$255K
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 Electric Company Theatre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 872054168RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.