Rice and Beans Theatre Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 843229634RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($407,321) as filed with the CRA.
Rice and Beans Theatre Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, 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 July 31, 2024, it reported $409K in revenue and $407K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 67% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2,682.
Compared with 355 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 61% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $900 in 2024, the largest being $900 to Canadahelps Canadon. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Our DBLSPK program entered its seventh year supporting the development of two new multilingual works: 'Hymn of the Weaver Birds' by Johnny Wu and Jocelyn Yuchia Chang (Mandarin) and 'Emberré Váltam' by Oliva Etey (Hungarian). Both workshop presentations were presented in-person as well as online reaching audiences both locally and internationally and had ASL interpretation available. The program continues to thrive and see audience growth thanks to support from Canadian Heritage and other funders as well as our new partnership with the Vancouver Public Library. We held our second annual…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $409K | $407K | $337K | $0 | $900 | $40K |
| 2023 | $369K | — | $293K | $999 | — | -$61K |
| 2022 | $450K | $449K | $387K | $29 | $0 | $35K |
| 2021 | $286K | $257K | $239K | $0 | — | $35K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $900 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $2,682 from 2 charities:
- The Hamber Foundation$2,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$682
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$111K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stevie Benisch (president); Drew Redman (director); Blossom (Yeonyoung) Koh (director); Douglas Ennenberg (treasurer); Beverly Cheung (secretary); Tess Conrad (director); Jessica Waters (director); Evelyn Chew (director); John Paul Catungal (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Rice and Beans Theatre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 843229634RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.