The Green Thumb Players Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 118947662RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($932,933) as filed with the CRA.
The Green Thumb Players 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $915K in revenue and $933K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 81% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $68K.
Compared with 355 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 14% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
We create produce and tour professional theatrical productions for children youth and young adults. We tour our works directly into schools and venues to meet youth where they are. We continue to encounter a lot of difficulties while touring such as the high cost of hiring professional contractors or the last-minute cancellations due to illness. This season we produced and toured one elementary school show: the mixolydian which toured in-person regionally. We also produced and toured two secondary school shows-for now which toured regionally and still falling which also toured regional…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $915K | $933K | $531K | $31K | — | $912K |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1.2M | $795K | $30K | — | $930K |
| 2022 | $992K | $1M | $587K | $43K | $0 | $1M |
| 2021 | $999K | $1M | — | — | $1,600 | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $1M | $945K | — | — | — | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $68K from 13 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$24K
- Y.P. Heung Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,584
- Chris-Spencer Foundation$5,000
- The McLean Foundation$5,000
- Port Coquitlam Community Foundation$3,400
- John Hardie Mitchell Family Foundation$2,500
- The Hamber Foundation$2,500
- The Christopher Foundation$2,500
- Click - Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids Society$1,000
- Oasis Foundation$500
- Centra Cares Foundation$500
- The Zacks Family Charitable Foundation$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$454K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Green Thumb Players Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118947662RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.