Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119281301RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,019,762) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.1M in revenue and $3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 35% from donations, 22% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $773K.
Compared with 414 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 31% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $3.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
Together with the City of Vancouver Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association operates VanDusen Botanical Garden and Bloedel Conservatory. We provide education programming and research access to a Botanical Library Membership services Volunteer programs Fundraising to support programming and Garden and Conservatory projects. We educate and connect families adults youth and children to plants nature and sustainability through hands-on and online classes and programs. We champion learning about and honoring Indigenous Nations’ relationship and knowledge of the natural world. We offer burs…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.1M | $3M | $2.2M | $212K | — | $4.5M |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $2.3M | $1.5M | $214K | — | $4.3M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1.9M | $1.2M | $152K | — | $3.4M |
| 2021 | $2.4M | $1.4M | $1.1M | $108K | $0 | $3.6M |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.5M | $947K | $158K | $0 | $2.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $773K from 20 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$441K
- United Way British Columbia$100K
- The Dalglish Family Foundation$100K
- Y.P. Heung Foundation$50K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$20K
- The Christopher Foundation$10K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$8,000
- Diamond Foundation$8,000
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$7,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,717
- Honda Canada Foundation$5,000
- Larkspur Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- The Victoria Foundation$2,500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,575
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,500
- The Hamber Foundation$1,000
- The Kinder Dream Foundation$1,000
- ZLC Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$140
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paul Kluckner (director); Christine McCaffrey (director); Susan Witter (secretary); Ann-Marie Copping (president); Angela White (director); Bill Manning (director); Victor Huang (director); Colleen Nesbitt (director); Elizabeth Taylor (director); Anna Hicks (treasurer); James Harris (director); Terry Anne Boyles (vice-president); Jason Chan (director); David Little (director); Barbara Ozimec (director); Amin Tabatabayi (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119281301RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.