Pacific Opera Victoria Foundation
Public foundation · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 119075554RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($752,629) as filed with the CRA.
Pacific Opera Victoria Foundation is a public foundation based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $480K in revenue and $753K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations, 72% from other charities. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $614K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $739K in 2024, the largest being $739K to Pacific Opera Victoria Association. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Promotion and support of the aims interests and activities for the advancement of opera by the pacific opera victoria association.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $480K | $753K | — | — | $739K | $5.8M |
| 2023 | $829K | $225K | — | — | $222K | $4.9M |
| 2022 | $974K | $178K | — | — | $168K | $3.7M |
| 2021 | $665K | $85K | $726 | — | $78K | $2.5M |
| 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 $739K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $614K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gary Moser (chair); Dick Cavaye (vice chair); Deneen Cunningham (secretary-treasurer); Deborah Wolstenholme (trustee); Elizabeth Denham (trustee); Barbara Hubbard (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Pacific Opera Victoria Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119075554RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.