Vancouver Island Symphony Foundation
Public foundation · Nanaimo, British Columbia · BN 818968638RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($142,812) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Island Symphony Foundation is a public foundation based in Nanaimo, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $536K in revenue and $143K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 63% from donations. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $44K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 93% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $143K in 2024, the largest being $143K to Vancouver Island Symphony Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $13K in 2020 to $536K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
continued solicitation of funds through volunteers and directors providing financial support to the Vancouver Island Symphony as required from time to time
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $536K | $143K | $143K | — | — | -$1 |
| 2023 | $193K | $40K | — | — | $40K | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $246K | $178K | $273 | $90K | — | $996K |
| 2021 | $1M | $121K | — | — | — | $928K |
| 2020 | $13K | $20K | — | — | $20K | $6,684 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $143K to 1 qualified donee:
- Vancouver Island Symphony Society$143K
Received $44K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Blake McGuffie (treasurer); Mary Magrega (secretary); Judy Carter (president); Larry Rumming; Bruce Forward (director); Barbara Grubb (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Island Symphony Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 818968638RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.