Vancouver Island Symphony
Charitable organization · Nanaimo, British Columbia · BN 119050813RR0001 · Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,175,894) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Island Symphony is a charitable organization based in Nanaimo, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 17% from donations, 18% from government, 13% from other charities. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $90K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 83% of that peer group.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Presents a series of concerts in the Central Vancouver Island Area. These include children's educational concerts. The goal of this charity is to create growth and appreciation of symphonic music.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $1.2M | $1.1M | $9,116 | — | -$7,627 |
| 2023 | $892K | $1M | $1M | $11K | — | $117K |
| 2022 | $1M | $814K | $398K | $99K | — | $271K |
| 2021 | $404K | $372K | $206K | $3,536 | — | $83K |
| 2020 | $892K | $848K | $580K | $19K | — | $30K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $90K from 17 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$30K
- Comox Valley Community Foundation$11K
- Allen & Loreen Van de Kerk Hove Family Foundation$7,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,410
- Sutherland Foundation Inc$5,000
- Y.P. Heung Foundation$5,000
- Deux Mille Foundation$5,000
- The Tuey Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Parksville - Qualicum Community Foundation$4,000
- The Hamber Foundation$2,500
- Nanaimo Community Foundation$2,419
- Lohn Foundation$2,000
- Charlton L Smith Charitable Foundation$2,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,057
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$50
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Zinda Fitzgerald (vice-president); Andrea Rosato-Taylor (director at large); Karen Griffin (director at large); Alison Booth (director at large); Surjeet Rai-Lewis (director at large); John Manning (director); Travis Wiebe (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Island Symphony’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119050813RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.