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Registered charity

Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society

Legal name on the register: GREATER VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SOCIETY

CA-E-M45A-AHNCFormerBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver4 independent sources
$7.1MRevenue reported
$5.1MPublic money on record
14On the board
14Organisations connected
13Municipal licences
30Employees reported
4Independent publishers
100/100Evidence depth
October 15, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
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
Identifiers held
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
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statcan-odbus
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statcan-odbus
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statcan-odbus
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statcan-odbus
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Evidence depth
100/100
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: 14 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
90
Operationslicences and operating places
59
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
100
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
64
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
73
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
89

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
RegistrarInstrumentNumberRegisteredStatus
Canada Revenue AgencyRegistered charity118946821RR0001—Registered
Municipal licences (13)
PlaceCategoryNumberFirst issuedStatus
VancouverBusiness Support Services4514445November 21, 2023Issued
VancouverRetail Dealer - Food4526449November 21, 2023Issued
VancouverTheatre4533147November 21, 2023Issued
VancouverVenue4604287October 24, 2024Issued
VancouverVenue4533542November 21, 2023Inactive
VancouverTheatre4608681March 17, 2025Issued
VancouverBusiness Support Services4645518March 25, 2025Issued
VancouverVenue4626831March 17, 2025Issued
VancouverRetail Dealer - Food4654166March 17, 2025Issued
VancouverTheatre4823665November 14, 2025Issued
VancouverBusiness Support Services4863337February 19, 2026Issued
VancouverRetail Dealer - Food4872456November 14, 2025Issued
VancouverVenue4843751November 14, 2025Issued

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 (14)
NamePositionServing sinceStatus
Kyle FostnerDIRECTOR—current
Barry MacdonaldDIRECTORJune 19, 2024ended June 30, 2027
Tina HouseDIRECTORJune 19, 2024ended June 30, 2027
Valerie ProdanukDIRECTORJune 19, 2024ended June 30, 2027
Brian ChanDIRECTORJune 12, 2023ended June 30, 2026
Brian McbayDIRECTORJune 12, 2023ended June 30, 2026
Jennifer EmeryDIRECTORJune 12, 2023ended June 30, 2026
Kevin EastwoodDIRECTORJune 12, 2023ended June 30, 2026
Catherine OlsenDIRECTORJune 15, 2022ended June 30, 2025
Matthew HallDIRECTORJune 15, 2022ended June 30, 2025
Ross GentlemanDIRECTORJune 15, 2022ended June 30, 2025
Sirish RaoDIRECTORJune 15, 2022ended June 30, 2025
Arn JohalDIRECTORJune 9, 2021ended June 30, 2024
Doreen ManuelDIRECTORJune 9, 2021ended 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.

Organisations sharing a filed director name (14)

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.

OrganisationKindNames in common
Canuck Place Children's Hospice Foundation
CA-E-SX6K-WX8C
Registered charity1
Chinese Canadian Museum Society Of British Columbia
CA-E-S2C0-JQSK
Registered charity1
Columbia Foundation
CA-E-RD1W-7P8V
Registered charity1
Documentary Organization of Canada
CA-E-48KS-2QQ2
Registered charity1
Ephriam Scott Presbyterian Church
CA-E-KTPY-ZC4A
Registered charity1
Kenzieville Cemetery Company
CA-E-NZ2Q-8MKZ
Registered charity1
Knowledge Network Corporation
CA-E-T1X8-J5KC
Registered charity1
La Fondation De L'hopital Glengarry Memorial Hospital Foundation
CA-E-E3S6-CNS6
Registered charity1
Lochalsh Cemetery Board
CA-E-PV9R-SBK6
Registered charity1
Satellite Video Exchange Society
CA-E-35V9-41RA
Registered charity1
Strawberry Point Christian Camp INC.
CA-E-SZD1-VAR5
Registered charity1
The Ottawa School Of Theatre
CA-E-SW7V-89CE
Registered charity1
The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation Of Ottawa-cornwall
CA-E-F2H3-XZA2
Registered charity1
Vancouver Foundation
CA-E-7R49-BRC4
Registered charity1
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 December 31, 2024
Total revenue
$7,099,526
Total spending
$7,173,143
Total assets
$839,317
Total liabilities
$320,954
Receipted donations
$273,357
Charitable programs49.2% · $3.5M · line 5000
Management and administration50.8% · $3.6M · line 5010
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
$5,131,632

across 35 agreements, 2009–2026

2009$446K
2012$119K
2013$129K
2014$130K
2015$133K
2016$103K
2017$150K
2018$205K
2019$1.8M
2020$135K
2021$182K
2022$120K
2023$976K
2024$330K
2025$128K
2026$25K
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
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 · 72
North 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
  1. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$24,736
  2. Licence first issued — Business Support Services
  3. Licence first issued — Theatre
  4. Licence first issued — Retail Dealer - Food
  5. Licence first issued — Venue
  6. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$5,000
  7. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$40,481
  8. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$57,600
  9. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$24,458
  10. Licence first issued — Business Support Services
  11. Licence first issued — Theatre
  12. Licence first issued — Venue
  13. Licence first issued — Retail Dealer - Food
  14. Licence first issued — Venue
  15. Federal grant — Pacific Economic Development Canada$250,000
  16. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$22,172
  17. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$57,600
  18. Licence first issued — Business Support Services
  19. Licence first issued — Retail Dealer - Food
  20. Licence first issued — Theatre
  21. Licence first issued — Venue
  22. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$375,000
  23. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$39,293
  24. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$61,700
  25. Federal grant — Pacific Economic Development Canada$500,000
  26. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$20,036
  27. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$99,800
  28. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$44,800
  29. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$29,640
  30. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$107,300
  31. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$12,264
  32. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$102,500
  33. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$20,300
  34. Federal grant — Western Economic Diversification Canada$350,000
  35. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$1,361,157
  36. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$7,756
  37. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$102,500
  38. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$100,000
  39. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$3,451
  40. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$101,700

Showing the 40 most recent of 48 dated events.

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 3M7
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
  • Same name and address — 1181 seymour, vancouver, BC
    asserted 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.

Where this record comes from
DatasetLast capturedCadenceCoverage keptHealth
Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 2, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 5, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — identification (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 8, 2026P1Y2 captures · 1 comparisonscurrent
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 3, 2026P3M1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
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, 2026P1M3 captures · 1 comparisonscurrent
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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