Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 108167602RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures (—) as filed with the CRA.
Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $476K in revenue.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $51K.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $240K in 2020 to $476K in 2024.
In its own words
The peretz centre provides secular education and cultural programs for children and families for the purpose of preservation and promotion of jewish culture and yiddish language. The peretz centre also provides adult and senior programming for that prupose. The peretz centre: 1. Provides educational programming on jewish secular culture and ongoing development of a yiddish library; 2. Promotes continuation of yiddish language classes choir discussion groups jewish music and yiddish/ hebrew/ latino I english choir; and 3. Facilitates the study of jewish history and arts.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $476K | — | — | — | — | $10.3M |
| 2023 | $479K | $464K | $320K | — | — | $10.4M |
| 2022 | $413K | $391K | $250K | — | — | $10.2M |
| 2021 | $388K | $352K | $167K | $45K | — | $9.2M |
| 2020 | $240K | $234K | $139K | $24K | — | $9.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $51K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$164K
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 Peretz Centre for Secular Jewish Culture’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108167602RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.