Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 890364821RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($841,521) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $842K in expenditures.
In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $681K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 76% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $797K in 2024, the largest being $797K to The Vancouver Art Gallery Association. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $24K in 2020 to $1.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
To provide funding to the vancouver art gallery association to assist with the cost of maintaining a public art gallery and financial support of traveling exhibitions education and public programs and in acquiring works of art.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $842K | — | — | $797K | $5M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $800K | — | — | $760K | $4.3M |
| 2022 | $365K | $808K | — | — | $767K | $4M |
| 2021 | $1M | $686K | — | — | $650K | $4.5M |
| 2020 | $24K | $644K | — | — | $603K | $4.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $797K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $681K from 9 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$630K
- Michael and Inna O'Brian Family Foundation$20K
- Kaatza Foundation$15K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$5,500
- Deux Mille Foundation$5,000
- Remembering Otto and Marie Pick Charitable Foundation$3,000
- Freybe Foundation$2,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$61
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2023)
David Roundtree (trustee (chair)); Carlos Yam (associate director/cfo); Garth Thurber (trustee (secretary/treasurer)); David Calabrigo (trusee (chair board associ); Anthony Kiendl (ex-officio (director gall); George Sesliga (trustee); Don Stuart (trustee); Mueller David (trustee); Jon Stovell (trustee); Greg Vriend (trustee).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890364821RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.