Registered charity
The Documentary Media Society
Legal name on the register: THE DOCUMENTARY MEDIA SOCIETY
CA-E-35NF-XPNVFormerBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver4 independent sources
$733KRevenue reported
$12KPublic money on record
9On the board
3Organisations connected
3Municipal licences
3Employees reported
4Independent publishers
97/100Evidence depth
October 15, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-35NF-XPNV
- Address
- 110 - 750 HAMILTON ST, VANCOUVER, BC, V6B 2R5
- Earliest record
- April 1, 2020
Identifiers held
- Charity registration
- 854305331RR0001
- Business number
- 854305331
- odbus-licence
- City of Vancouver:21-225463
- odbus-licence
- City of Vancouver:22-113265
- statcan-odbus
- aea9279d5df705cab600
- statcan-odbus
- f8812e9197bfa01f60bf
- Vancouver licence
- 4495138
- Vancouver licence
- 4642684
- Vancouver licence
- 4860378
- Vancouver licence no.
- 24-113521
- Vancouver licence no.
- 25-134961
- Vancouver licence no.
- 26-137794
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Evidence depth
97/100
Deep recordThis scores the depth of the public evidence assembled here. It does not score the organisation’s quality, reputation, solvency or risk. The formula is fixed and reproducible. See the formula.
Identityregistrations and identifiers
Operationsmunicipal licences
Filed figuresfinancials or workforce
Public moneycontracts or grants
Relationshipsfiled board or organisation links
Qualificationsstanding offers or supply arrangements
Public activitypermits and recorded work
Regulatorydecided findings
Dated historyevents with effective dates
Additional graph evidence outside the score: 3 organisation connections · 5 same-address neighbours.
Public footprint · version 1
Where this organisation appears in public records
Eight independent dimensions describe the size and shape of the evidence. They are deliberately not added into one company score: a licence, a grant, a director filing and a court finding mean different things.
Footprint is not performance.
A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.
Identityregistries, identifiers and corroboration
90
Operationslicences and operating places
45
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
100
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
28
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
65
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
52
Each dimension uses fixed, logarithmic caps so one dataset with thousands of repeated rows cannot drown out every other fact. Read the formula and limits.
Registrations
| Registrar | Instrument | Number | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada Revenue Agency | Registered charity | 854305331RR0001 | — | Registered |
Municipal licences (3)
| Place | Category | Number | First issued | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver | Association or Society | 4495138 | November 22, 2023 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Association or Society | 4642684 | November 19, 2024 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Association or Society | 4860378 | January 16, 2026 | Issued |
A licence records permission to operate. It is issued by a municipality, not by a corporate registrar, and its presence says the organisation traded at that address on that date — nothing about whether it does today.
Board and officers on record (9)
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Gerson | Director | November 23, 2023 | ended November 25, 2024 |
| Debra Pentecost | Chair | November 23, 2023 | ended November 25, 2024 |
| Jamala MacRae | Secretary | November 23, 2023 | ended November 25, 2024 |
| Michelle Mason | Director | November 23, 2023 | ended November 25, 2024 |
| Roelof Bootsma | Director | November 23, 2023 | ended November 25, 2024 |
| Kenneth Tsui | Chair | November 23, 2023 | ended November 25, 2024 |
| Lizzy Karp | Director | November 21, 2022 | ended November 23, 2023 |
| Withall Ashleigh | Director | November 21, 2022 | ended November 23, 2023 |
| Natasha Heughan-Tony | Vice-Chair | November 21, 2022 | ended November 23, 2023 |
Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.
Organisations sharing a filed director name (3)
Every one of these rests on a single name in common, which is the weakest form this evidence takes — read them as leads, not findings.
| Organisation | Kind | Names in common |
|---|---|---|
| 110 Arts Cooperative CA-E-77WS-ZMP3 | Registered charity | 1 |
| United Voices Choral Society CA-E-X0MY-A1R8 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Vancouver Museum Society CA-E-THYT-KV8M | Registered charity | 1 |
One name in common is a lead. Two is a link. These come from the director names each organisation filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, matched exactly as filed, and two people can share a name — across the whole corpus 95% of these rest on a single name, so a single match is genuinely weak evidence and is presented as such rather than dressed up. Two of the same names on the same pair of boards is a different matter: coincidence stops being a plausible explanation. A name appearing on more than eight boards is discarded outright as a probable collision.
The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
At the same address (5)
Organisations that filed the same street address and suite as this one, 750 HAMILTON ST #110.
| Organisation | Kind |
|---|---|
| 110 Arts Cooperative CA-E-77WS-ZMP3 | Registered charity |
| Glitch Theatre Society CA-E-4VSG-1NFD | Registered charity |
| Music on Main Society CA-E-NKN2-9F9M | Registered charity |
| Push International Performing Arts Festival Society CA-E-1QPZ-PCC3 | Registered charity |
| Touchstone Theatre Society CA-E-784D-53HV | Registered charity |
A shared door is not always a shared purpose. Sharing an address can mean one organisation with several registered arms, a building a sector clusters in, or simply a landlord. It is a fact about where filings were sent, not a claim about who controls whom.
Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
What it raised and spent — year ended August 31, 2024
- Total revenue
- $733,340
- Total spending
- $774,586
- Total assets
- $179,633
- Total liabilities
- $58,180
- Receipted donations
- $9,570
- From other charities
- $3,525
Charitable programs86.3% · $668K · line 5000
Management and administration11.4% · $88K · line 5010
Fundraising2.3% · $18K · line 5020
These are the charity’s own figures. They come from the T3010 return it filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, which is a statement the organisation makes about itself rather than an audit or an assessment of it. They are also a single year: a charity that received a capital gift, sold a building, or ran a campaign will look unlike itself.
A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
Public money on record
Federal grants and contributions
$12,300
across 1 agreement, 2020–2020
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian Heritage | 1 | $12,300 |
Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.
Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
What it does
- Trade
- Community Association · Exhibitions/Shows/Concerts · Other
- Licensed as
- Association or Society
- Industry code
- 81North American Industry Classification System
Trade and licence class are the publisher’s own words, kept as written rather than mapped onto a vocabulary of this site’s invention — a Calgary “RESTAURANT” and a Montréal “Restaurant service rapide” describe the same thing and are not the same string, and pretending otherwise would put words in a city’s mouth. The industry code is the exception: NAICS is a standard shared across Canada, the United States and Mexico, so it means the same thing wherever it appears. Only some publishers assign one.
Timeline
- Licence first issued — Association or Society
- Licence first issued — Association or Society
- Licence first issued — Association or Society
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$12,300
Why this is one record
6 public datasets from 4 independent publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.
- Same name and postal code V6B 2R5asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
- Same name and address — 750 hamilton, vancouver, BCasserted by Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.
Where this record comes from
| Dataset | Last captured | Cadence | Coverage kept | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 2, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 5, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — identification (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 8, 2026 | P1Y | 2 captures · 1 comparisons | current |
| Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 3, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Open Database of Businesses — version 1 Statistics Canada · Open Government Licence – Canada | — | — | — | not measured |
| Vancouver business licences City of Vancouver · Open Government Licence – Vancouver | October 15, 2026 | P1M | 3 captures · 1 comparisons | current |
Freshness is measured, not implied. “Last captured” is when this project last completed a read of the whole source dataset. “Coverage kept” is how many immutable captures and meaningful capture-to-capture comparisons are available. A missed day remains an explicit gap; a later snapshot cannot tell us what happened inside it. See every source.
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