The Metropolitan CO-Operative Theatre Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 127128221RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($504,730) as filed with the CRA.
The Metropolitan CO-Operative Theatre Society is a charitable organization 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $477K in revenue and $505K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 12% from government. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $8,000.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 33% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $211K in 2020 to $477K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Metro theatre promotes and develops theatre arts on a non-professional level including development for artist and technicians artistic expression and participation experience for volunteers building community and connecting people through theatre and promoting emotional and mental health for seniors
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $477K | $505K | $399K | — | — | $972K |
| 2023 | $293K | $304K | — | — | — | $1000K |
| 2022 | $335K | $314K | — | — | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $78K | $160K | — | — | — | $990K |
| 2020 | $211K | $274K | — | — | — | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $8,000 from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$163K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Donald Briard (director); Hayden Clewes (director); Steve Dotto (director); Shelley Hunt (director); Daryl Huntchings (secretary); William McNaughton (director); Roger Monk (treasurer); Catherine Morrison (director); Robert Moser (director); Shel Piercy (vice president); Cristina Priest (director); Matt Ramer (director); Alison Schamberger (president); Joanne Sears (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Metropolitan CO-Operative Theatre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 127128221RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.