Registered charity

Smi Film Society

Legal name on the register: SMI FILM SOCIETY

CA-E-4EZM-BPG7CurrentBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources

$691KRevenue reported

$93KPublic money on record

13On the board

9Organisations connected

3Municipal licences

3Employees reported

3Independent publishers

90/100Evidence depth

October 15, 2026Latest source capture

On the record

Identifier: CA-E-4EZM-BPG7
Address: 600 - 736 GRANVILLE ST, VANCOUVER, BC, V6Z 1G3
Earliest record: July 14, 2019
Also known as: Story Money Impact

Identifiers held

Charity registration: 781117932RR0001
Business number: 740463096
Business number: 781117932
Vancouver licence: 4495566
Vancouver licence: 4643104
Vancouver licence: 4860785
Vancouver licence no.: 24-217086
Vancouver licence no.: 25-135381
Vancouver licence no.: 26-138201

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Evidence depth

90/100

Deep record

This 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: 9 organisation connections.

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

Operationslicences and operating places

Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce

100

Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records

Public activitypermits and recorded work

Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations

Regulatorydecided public findings

Historydated span and recorded events

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	781117932RR0001	—	Registered

Municipal licences (3)

Place	Category	Number	First issued	Status
Vancouver	Association or Society	4495566	April 26, 2024	Issued
Vancouver	Association or Society	4643104	—	Pending
Vancouver	Association or Society	4860785	February 11, 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 (13)

Name	Position	Serving since	Status
Susan Grossman	Director	April 4, 2024	current
Railla Gutman	Director	December 13, 2023	current
Tony Chung	Treasurer	February 13, 2023	current
Baljit Sangra	Director	February 13, 2023	current
Mary Barroll	Director	January 19, 2022	current
John Dippong	Secretary	November 23, 2020	current
Tinu Mathur	President	September 6, 2019	current
Cory Generoux	Director	January 19, 2022	ended December 13, 2023
Marsha Newberry	Director	January 19, 2022	ended December 13, 2023
Sholeh Fabbri	Director	January 19, 2022	ended December 13, 2023
Annette Frymer	Director	November 23, 2020	ended May 30, 2024
Laura Plant	Director	July 14, 2019	ended December 13, 2023
Leonard Schein	Director	July 14, 2019	ended December 13, 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 (9)

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
Artists For Peace And Justice Canada CA-E-NKCW-NRNW	Registered charity	1
Coast Mental Health Foundation CA-E-CVX3-T3XN	Registered charity	1
Ecojustice Canada Society CA-E-AS8G-E2C6	Registered charity	1
Food Stash Foundation CA-E-D5PD-S0JY	Registered charity	1
One Girl Can Society CA-E-1BF8-F3PP	Registered charity	1
Schein Foundation CA-E-4HEV-BWBX	Registered charity	1
The David Suzuki Foundation CA-E-WCQX-PB0H	Registered charity	1
University Of British Columbia CA-E-W87A-DW0C	Registered charity	1
Vancouver Foundation CA-E-7R49-BRC4	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.

What it raised and spent — year ended September 30, 2024

Total revenue: $690,915
Total spending: $542,809
Total assets: $456,062
Total liabilities: $20,631

Receipted donations: $47,984
From other charities: $173,050

Charitable programs71.5% · $388K · line 5000

Management and administration19.1% · $104K · line 5010

Fundraising1.1% · $6K · line 5020

Not broken down in the return8.3% · $45K

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.

Public money on record

Federal grants and contributions

$92,978

across 4 agreements, 2020–2024

2020$8K

2021$30K

2023$30K

2024$25K

Paying institution	Awards	Value
Canadian Heritage	3	$85,000
Employment and Social Development Canada	1	$7,978

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.

What it does

Licensed as: Association or Society

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.

Timeline

February 11, 2026Licence first issued — Association or Society
September 1, 2024Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$25,000
April 26, 2024Licence first issued — Association or Society
September 15, 2023Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$30,000
November 29, 2021Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$30,000
October 21, 2020Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$7,978

Why this is one record

5 public datasets from 3 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 V6Z 1G3
asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and City of Vancouver
Same name and address — 736 granville, vancouver, BC
asserted by 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
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.

This page is assembled from open data. It is not an official record, and the registrar is authoritative where the two disagree. How records are assembled.

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