Sarah McLachlan School of Music Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 805192119RR0001 · Education in the Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,792,519) as filed with the CRA.
Sarah McLachlan School of Music Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $2.8M in revenue and $2.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 83% from other charities. In 2024, 25 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.2M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 81% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The sarah mclachlan school of music offers free after-school music instruction for at-risk youth without without access to music education. The school's focus is on piano guitar percussion voice choir songwriting music lab and syudent bands. There are 3 locations in vancouver surrey and edmonton.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.8M | $2.8M | $2M | $125K | — | $462K |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $2.4M | $1.9M | $64K | — | $498K |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $2.4M | $1.8M | $1,605 | — | $298K |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.8M | $1.3M | $7,644 | — | $894K |
| 2020 | $2.3M | $1.8M | $1.5M | $77K | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.2M from 25 charities:
- The Sarah McLachlan Foundation$1.3M
- The Annual Foundation$175K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$110K
- Canucks for Kids Fund$100K
- Nicola Family Foundation$100K
- Footbridge Foundation$100K
- Von Mandl Family Foundation$73K
- Vancouver Foundation$50K
- Aron Charitable Foundation$25K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$21K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$19K
- DR. Ann Worth Charitable Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- The Sprott Foundation$10K
- Oakville Community Foundation$7,500
- BenefAction Foundation$7,000
- Chan Better World Foundation$5,000
- The Belmont Foundation$5,000
- The Kinder Dream Foundation$5,000
- Canada Gives$5,000
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$3,040
- John Hardie Mitchell Family Foundation$3,000
- Anako Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$781
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$519
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sarah McLachlan (chair); Sue Bauman (member); Donna Molby (treasurer); David Martin (director); Jane Muckle (director); Jennifer Traub (member); Leen Kashyap (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sarah McLachlan School of Music Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 805192119RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.