Open Space Arts Society
Publicly funded institution · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 119068815RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($540,937) as filed with the CRA.
Open Space Arts Society is a charitable organization based in Victoria, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $512K in revenue and $541K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% 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 $135K.
Compared with 355 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Open space works with artists wroters musicians and performers to gather and activate creative visions. Its multidisciplinary team of curators and programmers work to present programming across arts disciplines bridging and building communities to form a living cultural space. Open space develops and presents multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary programs including visual and media arts music and sound performance arts and literary arts. Programs materialize through exhibitions installations dialogues artist talks community celebrations performances workshops readings resi…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $512K | $541K | $412K | — | — | $555K |
| 2023 | $658K | $593K | $452K | — | — | $584K |
| 2022 | $505K | $495K | — | — | — | $519K |
| 2021 | $613K | $489K | — | — | — | $510K |
| 2020 | $540K | $515K | — | — | — | $496K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $135K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$221K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Heng Wu (director); Anna Hostman (director); Kim Shortreed (director); Mel Granley (director); Anahita Ranjbar (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Open Space Arts Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119068815RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.