The Vancouver East Cultural Centre
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119281574RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,923,861) as filed with the CRA.
The Vancouver East Cultural Centre is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $5M in revenue and $5.9M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 25% from government, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $654K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 80% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 78% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 21 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
The Cultch is Vancouver's most diverse and innovative arts and cultural hub. We operate three theatres a gallery and various multi-use spaces in the heart of East Vancouver. We offer dynamic contemporary programming in theatre dance music and the visual arts bringing world-class cultural presentations to our community. Our purpose is to provide programming expertise and space for: diverse audiences the development of BIPOC artists artistic experimentation the presentation of cutting-edge national and international work. More than 100 different live and digital presentations each sea…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5M | $5.9M | $5.4M | $57K | — | $14.4M |
| 2023 | $4.7M | $5.9M | $4.8M | $47K | — | $15.3M |
| 2022 | $4.5M | $5.3M | $4.8M | $25K | — | $16.6M |
| 2021 | $3.4M | $3.8M | $386K | $23K | — | $17.4M |
| 2020 | $3.8M | $4.6M | $4.2M | $20K | — | $17.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $654K from 18 charities:
- Ronald S. Roadburg Foundation$458K
- Vancouver Foundation$72K
- The Steven Chambers Foundation$25K
- The Christopher Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$22K
- Canadahelps Canadon$22K
- Betty Averbach Foundation$16K
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- Abundance Canada$3,000
- R & J Stern Family Foundation$1,000
- Footbridge Foundation$1,000
- Oasis Foundation$500
- Vancity Community Foundation$500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$487
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$467
- Vancity Community Foundation$300
- Vancity Community Foundation$250
- Vancity Community Foundation$200
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions21
- Total compensation, all staff$2M
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 Vancouver East Cultural Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119281574RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.