Vancouver Youth Theatre Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119282416RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($43,566) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Youth Theatre Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under arts. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $45K in revenue and $44K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 64% from government, 35% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $16K.
Compared with 89 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 14% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Charitable activities include ongoing programs that fulfill vyt's mission statement: a creative partnership between young actors and authors with adult theatre professionals co-creating plays from young peoples' ideas across kids' writes (elementary schools) and teen programs (secondary school level). Our mandate of inclusivity serves a diversity of socio-economic communities. Programs build self-confidence critical thinking teambuilding life and career life as well as youth leadership towards social justice and peace education. Since the pandemic (2021) programs include in-person and on-…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $45K | $44K | $23K | — | — | -$20K |
| 2023 | $43K | $44K | $23K | — | — | -$21K |
| 2022 | $43K | $45K | $23K | — | — | -$20K |
| 2021 | $44K | $45K | $24K | — | — | -$19K |
| 2020 | $44K | $43K | $23K | — | — | -$17K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $16K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jan Robinson (director/past chair); Robert Camfield (treasurer); Angela Brown (chair); Daman Gill (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Youth Theatre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119282416RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.