Vancouver Symphony Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 854107554RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,221,514) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Symphony Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $5.8M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from donations, 10% from government, 16% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $746K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 59% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $2.8M in 2024, the largest being $2.7M to Vancouver Symphony Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Invest income earned on all funds. The vancouver symphony society is the beneficiary of the earned income.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.8M | $3.2M | — | — | $2.8M | $53.5M |
| 2023 | $4.4M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.5M | $49.7M |
| 2022 | $5.2M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.5M | $45.3M |
| 2021 | $6.4M | $199K | — | — | — | $45.7M |
| 2020 | $4.2M | $197K | $18K | — | — | $35.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.8M to 2 qualified donees:
Received $746K from 11 charities:
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundation$400K
- Vancouver Symphony Society$167K
- Audain Foundation$50K
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundation$50K
- The Tuey Charitable Foundation$50K
- Vancouver Foundation$17K
- Kaatza Foundation$5,000
- The Andrew Mahon Foundation$5,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$600
- Canadahelps Canadon$388
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$14K
Schedule 3 of its 2020 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Etienne Bruson (trustee); Suzanne Anton (trustee); Alan Pyatt (trustee); Gerald McGavin (trustee); Tim Wyman (trustee); Fred Withers (vice-chair); Arthur Willms (chair); Judi Korbin (trustee); David Garofalo (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Symphony Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 854107554RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.