Vancouver Opera Association
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119282002RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($9,788,426) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Opera Association is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $9.3M in revenue and $9.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 19% from government, 15% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.4M.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 17 names.
In its own words
Mainstage opera productions and community music programming Student dress rehearsals opera experience programs for students Educational programming including summer camp spring camp project opera for elementary and high school students. Young artist program for training emerging opera singers in Canada.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.3M | $9.8M | $5.3M | $1M | — | -$541K |
| 2023 | $7.8M | $8.1M | $4.3M | $876K | — | -$70K |
| 2022 | $6.6M | $6.1M | $3.1M | $840K | — | $183K |
| 2021 | $4.8M | $4.3M | $1.7M | $728K | — | -$304K |
| 2020 | $6.9M | $6.4M | $3.3M | $730K | — | -$916K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.4M from 20 charities:
- Vancouver Opera Foundation$2M
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundation$110K
- The Victoria Foundation$85K
- Vancouver Foundation$80K
- RBC Foundation$40K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$26K
- Canadahelps Canadon$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$12K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$11K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- ZLC Foundation$10K
- Diamond Foundation$7,500
- The Andrew Mahon Foundation$5,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$5,000
- Frank & Joan Lew Charitable Trust$3,000
- Chris-Spencer Foundation$2,500
- United Way British Columbia$2,000
- BenefAction Foundation$2,000
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$1,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$954
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$3.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kirk LaPointe (director); Pierre Lebel (director); Jennifer Muench (director); Carol Tsuyuki (director); Andrea Wood (director); Richard Rees (director); Roger Flowerdew (treasurer); Susan Van der Flier (chair); Krista Johanson (vice chair); Shaun Holman (director); Gagan Grewal (director); Stanis Smith (secretary); Wilson Williams (director); Joshua Hutchinson (director); MacKinnon Emily (director); Kevin Kelly (director); Ivor Luk (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Opera Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119282002RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.