Saint James Music Academy
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 835554817RR0001 · Education in the Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,133,605) as filed with the CRA.
Saint James Music Academy is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 31% from donations, 7% from government, 58% from other charities. In 2024, 50 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $715K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Providing training and instruction in music to children of low-income families. Partnering with local public schools to provide a primary music program where one no longer exists.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $989K | $21K | — | $666K |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $983K | $870K | $12K | — | $636K |
| 2022 | $965K | $942K | $827K | $18K | — | $565K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $941K | $851K | $11K | — | $542K |
| 2020 | $975K | $1M | $962K | $14K | — | $267K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $715K from 50 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$173K
- Aqueduct Foundation$60K
- Walsh Foundation$60K
- The Houssian Foundation$40K
- Beedie Foundation$30K
- JTC Heersink Foundation$30K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$23K
- Seedlings Foundation$22K
- DR. Ann Worth Charitable Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society$19K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$18K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- Ames Family Foundation$15K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$14K
- Vancity Community Foundation$10K
- Sutherland Foundation Inc$10K
- Y.P. Heung Foundation$10K
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Cedarhurst Foundation$10K
- Oasis Foundation$10K
- R & J Stern Family Foundation$10K
- Face the World Foundation$10K
- The Christopher Foundation$10K
- Jewish Federation of British Columbia$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$713K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jennifer Hepburn (treasurer); Lianne Gulka (chair); Donald Shumka (director); Rosemarie Schipizky (director); David Gens (director); ( Shirley ) Lu Junyu; Kael Vincent (director); Joyce Locht (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Saint James Music Academy’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 835554817RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.