Vancouver Opera Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 832848238RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,130,192) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Opera Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.1M in revenue and $2.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $499K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 84% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $2M in 2024, the largest being $2M to Vancouver Opera Association. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $491K in 2020 to $2.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The purpose of the Foundation is to receive hold and invest bequests donations gifts funds and property and to administer and distribute funds property endowments trusts and financial programs for the funding and support of the programs concerts productions and activities of the Vancouver Opera Association.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.1M | $2.1M | $27K | $5,662 | $2M | $15.5M |
| 2023 | $1M | $1.2M | $11K | — | $1.1M | $15.1M |
| 2022 | $497K | $620K | $44K | — | $510K | $14.9M |
| 2021 | $757K | $633K | $44K | — | $502K | $14.8M |
| 2020 | $491K | $276K | -$3,000 | — | $200K | $13.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $499K from 11 charities:
- David Spencer Endowment Encouragement Fund (2013)$200K
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation$150K
- Michael and Inna O'Brian Family Foundation$50K
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation$30K
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation$21K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$21K
- A Cappella Foundation$20K
- Freybe Foundation$5,000
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jim MacCallum (treasurer & secretary); Roger Flowerdew (director); Yuri Fulmer (director); Emily MacKinnon (director); Jennifer Muench (director); Richard Rees (chair); Roger Flowerdew; Geoff Dodds (director); Kevin Mah (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Opera Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 832848238RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.