Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society
Legal name on the register: GREATER VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SOCIETY
- Identifier
- CA-E-M45A-AHNC
- Address
- 1181 SEYMOUR ST, VANCOUVER, BC, V6B 3M7
- Earliest record
- July 1, 2009
- Also known as
- Vancouver International Film Festival
- Charity registration
- 118946821RR0001
- Business number
- 118946821
- odbus-licence
- City of Vancouver:13-441053
- odbus-licence
- City of Vancouver:22-132960
- odbus-licence
- City of Vancouver:22-145511
- odbus-licence
- City of Vancouver:22-152075
- odbus-licence
- City of Vancouver:22-152487
- statcan-odbus
- 4053417d152bc578f75a
- statcan-odbus
- 4c634f3ec0751243fcff
- statcan-odbus
- 54b2d58cbc880c0f6ae7
- statcan-odbus
- ccc1170f9c4b70976ab1
- statcan-odbus
- fd3de31c064fe90fa777
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.
Additional graph evidence outside the score: 14 organisation connections.
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.
A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.
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.
| Registrar | Instrument | Number | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada Revenue Agency | Registered charity | 118946821RR0001 | — | Registered |
| Place | Category | Number | First issued | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver | Business Support Services | 4514445 | November 21, 2023 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Retail Dealer - Food | 4526449 | November 21, 2023 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Theatre | 4533147 | November 21, 2023 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Venue | 4604287 | October 24, 2024 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Venue | 4533542 | November 21, 2023 | Inactive |
| Vancouver | Theatre | 4608681 | March 17, 2025 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Business Support Services | 4645518 | March 25, 2025 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Venue | 4626831 | March 17, 2025 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Retail Dealer - Food | 4654166 | March 17, 2025 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Theatre | 4823665 | November 14, 2025 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Business Support Services | 4863337 | February 19, 2026 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Retail Dealer - Food | 4872456 | November 14, 2025 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Venue | 4843751 | November 14, 2025 | 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.
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kyle Fostner | DIRECTOR | — | current |
| Barry Macdonald | DIRECTOR | June 19, 2024 | ended June 30, 2027 |
| Tina House | DIRECTOR | June 19, 2024 | ended June 30, 2027 |
| Valerie Prodanuk | DIRECTOR | June 19, 2024 | ended June 30, 2027 |
| Brian Chan | DIRECTOR | June 12, 2023 | ended June 30, 2026 |
| Brian Mcbay | DIRECTOR | June 12, 2023 | ended June 30, 2026 |
| Jennifer Emery | DIRECTOR | June 12, 2023 | ended June 30, 2026 |
| Kevin Eastwood | DIRECTOR | June 12, 2023 | ended June 30, 2026 |
| Catherine Olsen | DIRECTOR | June 15, 2022 | ended June 30, 2025 |
| Matthew Hall | DIRECTOR | June 15, 2022 | ended June 30, 2025 |
| Ross Gentleman | DIRECTOR | June 15, 2022 | ended June 30, 2025 |
| Sirish Rao | DIRECTOR | June 15, 2022 | ended June 30, 2025 |
| Arn Johal | DIRECTOR | June 9, 2021 | ended June 30, 2024 |
| Doreen Manuel | DIRECTOR | June 9, 2021 | ended June 30, 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Canuck Place Children's Hospice Foundation CA-E-SX6K-WX8C | Registered charity | 1 |
| Chinese Canadian Museum Society Of British Columbia CA-E-S2C0-JQSK | Registered charity | 1 |
| Columbia Foundation CA-E-RD1W-7P8V | Registered charity | 1 |
| Documentary Organization of Canada CA-E-48KS-2QQ2 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Ephriam Scott Presbyterian Church CA-E-KTPY-ZC4A | Registered charity | 1 |
| Kenzieville Cemetery Company CA-E-NZ2Q-8MKZ | Registered charity | 1 |
| Knowledge Network Corporation CA-E-T1X8-J5KC | Registered charity | 1 |
| La Fondation De L'hopital Glengarry Memorial Hospital Foundation CA-E-E3S6-CNS6 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Lochalsh Cemetery Board CA-E-PV9R-SBK6 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Satellite Video Exchange Society CA-E-35V9-41RA | Registered charity | 1 |
| Strawberry Point Christian Camp INC. CA-E-SZD1-VAR5 | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Ottawa School Of Theatre CA-E-SW7V-89CE | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation Of Ottawa-cornwall CA-E-F2H3-XZA2 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Vancouver Foundation CA-E-7R49-BRC4 | Registered charity | 1 |
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.
- Total revenue
- $7,099,526
- Total spending
- $7,173,143
- Total assets
- $839,317
- Total liabilities
- $320,954
- Receipted donations
- $273,357
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.
across 35 agreements, 2009–2026
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Canadian Heritage | 20 | $3,341,057 |
| Pacific Economic Development Canada | 2 | $750,000 |
| Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | 1 | $445,988 |
| Western Economic Diversification Canada | 1 | $350,000 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 11 | $244,587 |
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.
- Trade
- Administration · Liquor License Application · Liquor Primary · Live · Office · Other · Retail Dealer - Food · Theatre
- Licensed as
- Business Support Services · Retail Dealer - Food · Theatre · Venue
- Industry code
- 519190 · 56 · 711311 · 711322 · 72North American Industry Classification System
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$24,736
- Licence first issued — Business Support Services
- Licence first issued — Theatre
- Licence first issued — Retail Dealer - Food
- Licence first issued — Venue
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$5,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$40,481
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$57,600
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$24,458
- Licence first issued — Business Support Services
- Licence first issued — Theatre
- Licence first issued — Venue
- Licence first issued — Retail Dealer - Food
- Licence first issued — Venue
- Federal grant — Pacific Economic Development Canada$250,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$22,172
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$57,600
- Licence first issued — Business Support Services
- Licence first issued — Retail Dealer - Food
- Licence first issued — Theatre
- Licence first issued — Venue
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$375,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$39,293
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$61,700
- Federal grant — Pacific Economic Development Canada$500,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$20,036
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$99,800
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$44,800
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$29,640
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$107,300
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$12,264
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$102,500
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$20,300
- Federal grant — Western Economic Diversification Canada$350,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$1,361,157
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$7,756
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$102,500
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$100,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$3,451
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$101,700
Showing the 40 most recent of 48 dated events.
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 3M7asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
- Same name and address — 1181 seymour, vancouver, BCasserted by Canada Revenue Agency and 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.
| 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 |
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