Vancouver Society for Early Music
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 108167776RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,578,187) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Society for Early Music is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 27% from donations, 30% from government. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $337K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Year-round in person and online concerts including a summer early music festival featuring local and internationally acclaimed artists performing primarily pre-20th century century music according to traditions ( instruments performances styles and texts) that are as much as possible in accord with those that were current when the music was composed. Winter/fall advanced-level educational programs focused on early music featuring a faculty of local and international artist. Scholarship program for local advanced -level music students providing them with private lessons with a profess…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $860K | $58K | — | $444K |
| 2023 | $1.9M | $1.7M | $963K | $47K | — | $412K |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $814K | $38K | — | $233K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $699K | $20K | — | $219K |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1M | $16K | — | $185K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $337K from 15 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$128K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$44K
- Canadahelps Canadon$41K
- Canadahelps Canadon$41K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$31K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$21K
- ZLC Foundation$11K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- A Cappella Foundation$5,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,226
- Abundance Canada$1,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,000
- Freybe Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$598
- United Way of Calgary and Area$180
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$483K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Serena Ko (director); Ron Kruschen (treasurer); Janet Lea (director); Pamela Ratner (vice-president); Jeff Sodowsky (director); Andrew Szeri (president); Vincent Tan (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Society for Early Music’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108167776RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.