The Arts Club of Vancouver Theatre Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119213551RR0001 · Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($18,106,464) as filed with the CRA.
The Arts Club of Vancouver Theatre Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $18.8M in revenue and $18.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 6% from government, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 42 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
Compared with 39 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 82% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 81% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 71 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $537K in 2024, the largest being $537K to The Arts Club of Vancouver Theatre Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $11.8M in 2020 to $18.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The arts club theatre company is canada's largest urban not for profit theatre company producing up to 20 productions with over 700 performances each seson in vancouver and throughout the province of bc. Our values are deeply rooted in our sense of place and we believe that cultivating and engaging local artists to tell stories that are enlivened by our shared experiences not only strengthens us but also our community. We just completed our 60th season and we operate three separate preforming arts facilities: the 650 seat stanley industirial alliance stage the 450 seat granville island stag…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $18.8M | $18.1M | $15.7M | $598K | $537K | $2.8M |
| 2023 | $15.9M | $17.6M | $15.6M | $586K | $192K | $2.2M |
| 2022 | $13.5M | $11.6M | $7.2M | $470K | — | $3.9M |
| 2021 | $6.1M | $5.6M | $3.5M | $380K | — | $2M |
| 2020 | $11.8M | $11.4M | $7.9M | $661K | $242K | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $537K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $1.3M from 42 charities:
- The Arts Club of Vancouver Theatre Foundation$680K
- BenefAction Foundation$90K
- Vancouver Foundation$82K
- Aqueduct Foundation$50K
- The Morris and Helen Belkin Foundation$50K
- Longhedge Foundation$50K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$31K
- The Hieros Foundation$30K
- The River Foundation$30K
- The Christopher Foundation$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$17K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$15K
- Makeway Foundation$14K
- United Way British Columbia$13K
- RBC Foundation$13K
- Diamond Foundation$10K
- Value Partners Charitable Foundation Inc.$10K
- Kaatza Foundation$5,000
- Deux Mille Foundation$5,000
- F. K. Morrow Foundation$5,000
- The Winnipeg Foundation$5,000
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundation$5,000
- Canada Gives$5,000
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions71
- Total compensation, all staff$7.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Wanda Costuros (chair); Suzanne James (director); Heather McKay (director); Bev Park (vice chair); Shawn Williamson (director); Al-Karim Kara (director); Natascha Kiernan (director); Harvey McKinnon (director); Amin Sunderji (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Arts Club of Vancouver Theatre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119213551RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.