The Friends of the Vancouver City Archives
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 875783250RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($9,418) as filed with the CRA.
The Friends of the Vancouver City Archives is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 $13K in revenue and $9,418 in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 56% from donations, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1,992.
Compared with 673 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $8,000 in 2024, the largest being $8,000 to City of Vancouver Archives. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Continued to work with the City of Vancouver Archives to support public access to the holdings of the Archives. Specifically the charity's ongoing digitization program resulted in an additional 4 642 historic photographs from the Archives' holdings being digitized for online access.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $13K | $9,418 | $166 | — | $8,000 | $22K |
| 2023 | $12K | $24K | $100 | — | $23K | $18K |
| 2022 | $29K | $542 | $271 | — | — | $29K |
| 2021 | $11K | $9,263 | — | — | $9,000 | $15K |
| 2020 | $15K | $8,887 | — | — | $8,500 | $14K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $8,000 to 1 qualified donee:
- City of Vancouver Archives$8,000
Received $1,992 from 2 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,492
- Vancouver Foundation$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Atkin (director); Kevin Bowers (secretary); Aaron Chapman (director); Neal Jennings (treasurer); Jill Kelly (chair); Elana Zysblat (director); Merrilee Robson (vice chair); Jennifer Chutter (director); Emily Lonie (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Friends of the Vancouver City Archives’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 875783250RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.