Vancouver Art Therapy Institute Association
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119281145RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($675,282) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Art Therapy Institute Association 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $782K in revenue and $675K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from donations.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 46% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $406K in 2020 to $782K in 2024.
In its own words
Provide training in art therapy at the graduate level. Provide art therapy as a service and deliver information about art therapy to the public.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $782K | $675K | $576K | — | — | $851K |
| 2023 | $630K | $568K | $484K | — | — | $739K |
| 2022 | $600K | $466K | $394K | — | — | $672K |
| 2021 | $563K | $422K | $242K | — | — | $538K |
| 2020 | $406K | $365K | $228K | — | — | $398K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$305K
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 Vancouver Art Therapy Institute Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119281145RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.