Pacific Opera Victoria Association
Charitable organization · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 119075547RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($6,609,482) as filed with the CRA.
Pacific Opera Victoria Association is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $6.5M in revenue and $6.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 21% from government, 26% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.8M.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 50% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $345K in 2024, the largest being $345K to Pacific Opera Victoria Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $556K in 2020 to $6.5M in 2024.
In its own words
Pacific opera victoria association is committed to the following purposes: - to advance the public's appreciation of the arts by creating and staging professional opera for greater victoria and for regional national and international audiences. - to provide canadian artists with opportunities to expand their repertoire and to offer training opportunities to students of music and theatre in the discipline of opera production. - to enhande the impact of opera through curated events and activities that engage diverse communities. - to provide opportunities for youth to appreciate and par…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.5M | $6.6M | $4.9M | $478K | $345K | $4.4M |
| 2023 | $5.4M | $6.1M | — | — | — | $471K |
| 2022 | $4.3M | $4.4M | $3.4M | $334K | — | $525K |
| 2021 | $4.6M | $3.9M | $3.5M | $316K | — | $565K |
| 2020 | $556K | $19K | $776 | — | $12K | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $345K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $1.8M from 18 charities:
- Pacific Opera Victoria Foundation$739K
- The Victoria Foundation$674K
- BenefAction Foundation$92K
- Moss Rock Park Foundation$56K
- Koerner Foundation$55K
- Robert & Devi Jawl Foundation$50K
- Egon Baumann Music Foundation$30K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundation$17K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$15K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$14K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$11K
- The Quail Rock Foundation$10K
- The Christopher Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,847
- Vancouver Foundation$6,500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$350
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$48
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$1.8M
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 Pacific Opera Victoria Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119075547RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.