Historic Joy Kogawa House Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 841699218RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($187,059) as filed with the CRA.
Historic Joy Kogawa House Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $143K in revenue and $187K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 40% from government, 25% from other charities. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $23K.
Compared with 1,296 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 76% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Historic joy kogawa house is a home of writing education and dialogue. Our mission is to engage literary and local communities through education and an author residency that reflect and build on joy kogawa's experience as a writer and formerly interned canadian of japanese heritage. Our vision is to write and share stories that reveal history with its legacies of prejudice resilience and courage. Ongoing programs include an author residency school tours literary events and weekly drop-in writing group.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $143K | $187K | $177K | — | — | $176K |
| 2023 | $121K | $147K | $133K | — | — | $221K |
| 2022 | $107K | $164K | $151K | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $220K | $96K | $86K | — | — | $532K |
| 2020 | $140K | $60K | $60K | — | — | $408K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $23K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$65K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kevin Eng (treasurer); Todd Wong (past chair); Matt Canute (chair); Alexis Beamon (member at large); Tariq Malik (member at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Historic Joy Kogawa House Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 841699218RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.