Vancouver Academy of Music
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 108166240RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($4,720,341) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Academy of Music is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $8.7M in revenue and $4.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from donations, 5% from government, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $646K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 99% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.3M in 2020 to $8.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The transformative power of the performing arts is regularly demonstrated by vam's presdentation of over one hundred public concerts offered at either a reduced rate or free of charge for senior's care facilities and elementary/secondary school students and the at-large public. Along with a grant from the city of vancouver vam is able to present five concert productions at the historic orpheum theatre.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.7M | $4.7M | $3.3M | $4,160 | — | $6.4M |
| 2023 | $4.2M | $4M | $2.7M | $6,764 | — | $2.2M |
| 2022 | $3.9M | $3.6M | $2.3M | $2,359 | — | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $3.9M | $3.6M | $2.4M | $11K | — | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $4.3M | $3.7M | $2.6M | $5,929 | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $646K from 12 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$573K
- BenefAction Foundation$23K
- Cob Charitable Foundation$15K
- The Cedarhurst Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,682
- R & J Stern Family Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,966
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$4,500
- Loyal Protestant Association$2,500
- Jewish Federation of British Columbia$2,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$250
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$67
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sandra Campbell (board of director); Ian Macintosh (board of director); Monique Wilberg (chair); Eric Wilson (board of director); Ivy Zhang (board of director); Casey Ching (treasurer); Julia Yan (board of director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Academy of Music’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108166240RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.