Grand Forks Art Gallery Society
Publicly funded institution · Grand Forks, British Columbia · BN 122662877RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($529,013) as filed with the CRA.
Grand Forks Art Gallery Society is a charitable organization based in Grand Forks, 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 $531K in revenue and $529K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 64% from government, 8% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $57K.
Compared with 686 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 4% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Public art gallery public and educational programming
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $531K | $529K | $62K | $11K | — | $495K |
| 2023 | $455K | $467K | $61K | $5,443 | — | $492K |
| 2022 | $432K | $426K | $289K | $2,727 | $3,000 | $504K |
| 2021 | $360K | $361K | $290K | $3,814 | — | $184K |
| 2020 | $569K | $409K | $301K | $12K | — | $345K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $57K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$266K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rachel Grav (secretary); Christine Elsaesser (vice chair); Jody Hatto (treasurer); Darlene Dautel (chair); Erika Thorpe (director); Nicole Del Aguila (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Grand Forks Art Gallery Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 122662877RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.