Registered charity
Vancouver Opera Association
Legal name on the register: VANCOUVER OPERA ASSOCIATION
CA-E-82HG-YFQVCurrentBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver4 independent sources
$2.1MRevenue reported
$6.6MPublic money on record
35On the board
19Organisations connected
6Municipal licences
20Employees reported
4Independent publishers
100/100Evidence depth
October 15, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-82HG-YFQV
- Address
- 1945 MCLEAN DR, VANCOUVER, BC, V5N 3J7
- Earliest record
- March 24, 2006
Identifiers held
- Charity registration
- 119282002RR0001
- Charity registration
- 832848238RR0001
- Business number
- 119282002
- Business number
- 832848238
- odbus-licence
- City of Vancouver:17-210764
- odbus-licence
- City of Vancouver:22-113353
- odbus-licence
- City of Vancouver:22-113354
- statcan-odbus
- 0865f093a4e0491d3dd3
- statcan-odbus
- 86ddcfd8f98a6adf14ac
- statcan-odbus
- 8d389b04214b23ca15a4
- Vancouver licence
- 4495216
- Vancouver licence
- 4495217
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Evidence depth
100/100
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: 19 organisation connections · 1 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
100
Operationslicences and operating places
51
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
100
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
63
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
90
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
85
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 | 119282002RR0001 | — | Registered |
| Canada Revenue Agency | Registered charity | 832848238RR0001 | — | Registered |
Municipal licences (6)
| Place | Category | Number | First issued | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver | Association or Society | 4495216 | November 22, 2023 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Association or Society | 4495217 | November 23, 2023 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Association or Society | 4642760 | December 4, 2024 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Association or Society | 4642759 | December 18, 2024 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Association or Society | 4860449 | January 9, 2026 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Association or Society | 4860448 | February 19, 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 (35)
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ivor Luk | Director | June 27, 2024 | current |
| Roger Flowerdew | — | June 12, 2024 | current |
| Geoff Dodds | Director | June 12, 2024 | current |
| Kevin Mah | Director | June 12, 2024 | current |
| MacKinnon Emily | Director | May 30, 2024 | current |
| Kevin Kelly | Director | May 30, 2024 | current |
| Jim MacCallum | Treasurer & Secretary | June 14, 2023 | current |
| Gagan Grewal | Director | April 27, 2023 | current |
| Wilson Williams | Director | April 27, 2023 | current |
| Shaun Holman | Director | October 13, 2022 | current |
| Stanis Smith | Secretary | October 13, 2022 | current |
| Joshua Hutchinson | Director | October 13, 2022 | current |
| Roger Flowerdew | Director | June 15, 2021 | current |
| Krista Johanson | Vice Chair | April 15, 2021 | current |
| Pierre Lebel | Director | December 15, 2020 | current |
| Yuri Fulmer | Director | June 26, 2020 | current |
| Jennifer Muench | Director | June 26, 2020 | current |
| Roger Flowerdew | Treasurer | June 15, 2020 | current |
| Jennifer Muench | Director | October 15, 2019 | current |
| Carol Tsuyuki | Director | October 15, 2019 | current |
| Susan Van der Flier | Chair | October 15, 2019 | current |
| Emily MacKinnon | Director | October 15, 2019 | current |
| Kirk LaPointe | Director | November 15, 2018 | current |
| Andrea Wood | Director | November 15, 2018 | current |
| Richard Rees | Chair | October 30, 2018 | current |
| Richard Rees | Director | October 15, 2017 | current |
| Jessica Macintosh | Director | October 13, 2022 | ended September 26, 2024 |
| Paul McEwen | Director | June 14, 2022 | ended June 11, 2025 |
| Jill Bodkin | Director | June 14, 2022 | ended June 11, 2025 |
| Jake Boxer | Director | June 14, 2022 | ended June 11, 2025 |
| Human Alghabi | Director | October 7, 2021 | ended November 28, 2024 |
| Nancy Wu | Director | September 15, 2020 | ended September 26, 2024 |
| Neil Carnell | Director | June 26, 2020 | ended June 11, 2025 |
| Jan Sampson | Director | June 15, 2020 | ended September 26, 2024 |
| Maria Leone | Director | October 15, 2019 | ended September 26, 2024 |
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 (19)
1 of them shares more than one name, which is a much stronger link than the rest. Those are listed first.
| Organisation | Kind | Names in common |
|---|---|---|
| A.s.t.c. Science World Society CA-E-YK2C-JTDD | Registered charity | 2 |
| Audain Art Museum CA-E-SAVS-HWPV | Registered charity | 1 |
| Bard In The Valley Society CA-E-WNQC-8NHV | Registered charity | 1 |
| Highlands Early Learning Centre CA-E-C977-JP1Q | Registered charity | 1 |
| La Fabrique De La Paroisse De Saint-andre CA-E-A4DV-05HH | Registered charity | 1 |
| McCoy Family Charity Foundation CA-E-5WBZ-DMSX | Registered charity | 1 |
| Michael Smith Foundation For Health Research CA-E-CBSJ-STWB | Registered charity | 1 |
| National Self Represented Litigants Project CA-E-DMWH-MD6D | Registered charity | 1 |
| Pacific Salmon Endowment Fund Society CA-E-XB67-ABYW | Registered charity | 1 |
| Providence Health Care Society CA-E-QX15-7N0K | Registered charity | 1 |
| Rick Hansen Foundation CA-E-9G0A-KPQR | Registered charity | 1 |
| Sam Sullivan Disability Foundation CA-E-F3V0-KR9H | Registered charity | 1 |
| Squamish Nation Youth Centre CA-E-P6VG-0CNG | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Fulmer Foundation CA-E-S9GN-71ZC | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Greater Edmonton Chinese Community Foundation CA-E-T9C3-KXN2 | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Kidsafe Project Society CA-E-JN4N-ME2V | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Vancouver Art Gallery Association CA-E-19PH-C1M3 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Vancouver Concert Hall And Theatre Society CA-E-DA10-1MPS | Registered charity | 1 |
| Vancouver Opera Guild CA-E-WE4H-854K | 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 (1)
Organisations that filed the same street address and suite as this one, 1945 MCLEAN DR.
| Organisation | Kind |
|---|---|
| Indian Summer Arts Society CA-E-Y2XN-3G6G | 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 December 31, 2024
- Total revenue
- $2,110,029
- Total spending
- $130,192
- Total assets
- $16,580,078
- Total liabilities
- $1,109,035
- Receipted donations
- $100,625
- From other charities
- $500
- Granted onward
- $2,000,000
Charitable programs20.7% · $27K · line 5000
Management and administration74.9% · $98K · line 5010
Fundraising4.3% · $6K · 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
$6,583,749
across 25 agreements, 2006–2025
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian Heritage | 24 | $6,580,109 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 1 | $3,640 |
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
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$115,263
- Licence first issued — Association or Society
- Licence first issued — Association or Society
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$241,744
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$117,779
- Licence first issued — Association or Society
- Licence first issued — Association or Society
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$68,445
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$54,488
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$3,640
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$125,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$749,947
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$66,431
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$542,952
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$66,012
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$98,936
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$1,077,694
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$129,634
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$78,881
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$95,655
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$314,970
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$859,504
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$342,888
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$316,494
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$301,348
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$258,364
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$27,175
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$271,549
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$258,957
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 V5N 3J7asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
- Same name and address — 1945 mclean, vancouver, BCasserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
- Same name and address — 1955 mclean, 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.
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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