Pitt Meadows Heritage and Museum Society
Publicly funded institution · Pitt Meadows, British Columbia · BN 892436841RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($136,915) as filed with the CRA.
Pitt Meadows Heritage and Museum Society is a charitable organization based in Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 $133K in revenue and $137K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2020, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $5.
Compared with 686 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
In its own words
A year round Museum and Community Archives. Various on and off site programs including school and group tours special events and in-house programs that include Summer Heritage Thursdays and Museum Sundays. Exhibits - both permanent and temporary. Research services. Management of collections that pertain to objects and to archival documents maps photographs etc. Vintage engine and vehicle preservation. These are Museum artefacts.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $133K | $137K | $133K | $0 | $0 | $838K |
| 2023 | $130K | $127K | $121K | — | — | $842K |
| 2022 | $134K | $143K | $136K | $0 | $0 | $839K |
| 2021 | $121K | $121K | $121K | — | — | $848K |
| 2020 | $114K | $103K | $103K | — | — | $849K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2020
Received $5 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$120K
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 Pitt Meadows Heritage and Museum Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892436841RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.