MUSE: Multilingual Understanding and Shared Education Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 847071503RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($75,000) as filed with the CRA.
MUSE: Multilingual Understanding and Shared Education Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 $26K in revenue and $75K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from other charities. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $50K.
Compared with 673 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Promoting mandarin and english bilingual education program.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $26K | $75K | — | — | $75K | $26K |
| 2023 | $55K | $19K | $19K | — | $0 | $76K |
| 2022 | $1,515 | $12K | $0 | — | $0 | $39K |
| 2021 | $30K | $672 | $0 | — | $0 | $49K |
| 2020 | $20K | $550 | — | — | — | $20K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $50K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$66
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Henry Yu (director); Winnie Kwan (director); Kevin Huang (director); John Atkin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from MUSE: Multilingual Understanding and Shared Education Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 847071503RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.