Vancouver International Children's Festival Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 118833532RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures (—) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver International Children's Festival Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under arts. 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue.
Its funding that year was roughly 50% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $49K.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $640K in 2020 to $1.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
The Vancouver International Children's Festival Society presented a fully in person festival from May 27-June 2nd 2024. We presented 14 international national and regional live shows plus hands on arts activities resulting in 75 performances 2 workshops and 12 hands on arts activities created and performed by 74 artists 60% of them from British Columbia. 19 631 school children and families attended the festival and over 50% of our shows were sold out. We used 6 theatres on Granville Island: Granville Island Stage The Nest Carousel Studio A Waterfront Theatre Performance Works and the…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | — | $1.5M | — | — | $386K |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.6M | — | — | $546K |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1.3M | — | — | $512K |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1M | $949K | — | — | $426K |
| 2020 | $640K | $622K | $565K | — | — | $77K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $49K from 9 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,482
- Diamond Foundation$6,000
- The McLean Foundation$5,000
- The Andrew Mahon Foundation$4,000
- McCarthy Tetrault Foundation$2,500
- The Christopher Foundation$2,500
- Lohn Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$354K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Christina (Ling Mei) Tang- (chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver International Children's Festival Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118833532RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.