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Registered charity

Vancouver Symphony Foundation

Legal name on the register: VANCOUVER SYMPHONY FOUNDATION

CA-E-X3Y8-N2BTFormerBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver4 independent sources
$23.9MRevenue reported
$4.6MPublic money on record
40On the board
27Organisations connected
3Municipal licences
120Employees reported
4Independent publishers
100/100Evidence depth
October 15, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
Identifier
CA-E-X3Y8-N2BT
Address
500-833 SEYMOUR ST, VANCOUVER, BC, V6B 0G4
Earliest record
December 15, 2001
Also known as
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Identifiers held
Charity registration
119282283RR0001
Charity registration
854107554RR0001
Business number
119282283
Business number
854107554
odbus-licence
City of Vancouver:22-113336
statcan-odbus
bec454a7f53f567c827d
Vancouver licence
4495201
Vancouver licence
4642745
Vancouver licence
4860435
Vancouver licence no.
24-113584
Vancouver licence no.
25-135022
Vancouver licence no.
26-137851
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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: 27 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
100
Operationslicences and operating places
45
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
100
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
59
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
93
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
81

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 charity119282283RR0001—Registered
Canada Revenue AgencyRegistered charity854107554RR0001—Registered
Municipal licences (3)
PlaceCategoryNumberFirst issuedStatus
VancouverAssociation or Society4495201November 22, 2023Issued
VancouverAssociation or Society4642745November 18, 2024Issued
VancouverAssociation or Society4860435November 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 (40)
NamePositionServing sinceStatus
Russell FosterDIRECTORApril 24, 2024current
Suzanne AntonTRUSTEEDecember 7, 2023current
Judi KorbinTRUSTEEDecember 7, 2023current
Manijeh ColabellaDIRECTORNovember 29, 2023current
Yuan ShiDIRECTORNovember 29, 2023current
Edward WangDIRECTORNovember 29, 2023current
Vincent Kam Sun YipDIRECTORNovember 29, 2023current
Beverly PaoDIRECTORNovember 29, 2023current
Rianna RitchieDIRECTORNovember 29, 2023current
Timothy CuffeDIRECTORDecember 1, 2022current
Feisal DedharDIRECTORDecember 1, 2022current
Andrew GubbelsDIRECTORDecember 1, 2022current
Jan LaishleyDIRECTORDecember 1, 2022current
Dennis Thomas-whonoakDIRECTORDecember 1, 2022current
Holden ChowDIRECTORDecember 2, 2021current
Jaci EdgeworthDIRECTORDecember 2, 2021current
David GarofaloTRUSTEEDecember 17, 2020current
Jonathan BerkowitzDIRECTORApril 22, 2020current
Etienne BrusonTRUSTEEDecember 13, 2019current
Ben MinkDIRECTORApril 24, 2019current
James CarterDIRECTORFebruary 21, 2018current
David GarofaloVICE CHAIRNovember 26, 2017current
Suzanne AntonDIRECTORNovember 26, 2017current
Gerald McgavinTRUSTEEMay 20, 2014current
Alan PyattTRUSTEEDecember 17, 2012current
Fred WithersVICE-CHAIRDecember 17, 2012current
Tim WymanTRUSTEEDecember 14, 2009current
Arthur WillmsCHAIRDecember 15, 2001current
Nez AquinoTRUSTEEDecember 7, 2023ended August 31, 2024
Nez AquinoDIRECTORDecember 1, 2022ended August 31, 2024
Jill SchnarrDIRECTORDecember 2, 2021ended November 27, 2024
Lis WelchDIRECTORFebruary 27, 2019ended November 29, 2023
Jill TippingDIRECTORNovember 29, 2016ended May 24, 2024
Alex MaulerDIRECTORMay 26, 2016ended November 29, 2023
Irene McewenTRUSTEEDecember 10, 2014ended December 7, 2023
Cathy GrantVICE-CHAIRNovember 26, 2014ended November 29, 2023
Roy MillenDIRECTORNovember 26, 2014ended November 29, 2023
Fred PletcherDIRECTORNovember 26, 2014ended November 29, 2023
Debra FinlayDIRECTORNovember 25, 2014ended November 29, 2023
Etienne BrusonCHAIRJune 28, 2013ended November 29, 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 (27)

2 of them share more than one name, which is a much stronger link than the rest. Those are listed first.

OrganisationKindNames in common
Vancouver Concert Hall And Theatre Society
CA-E-DA10-1MPS
Registered charity2
Vso Charitable Foundation
CA-E-PAWT-S9BC
Registered charity2
Alan And Gwendoline Pyatt Foundation
CA-E-JDFN-JSD2
Registered charity1
Canada West Foundation
CA-E-0B41-37T4
Registered charity1
Canadian Constitution Foundation
CA-E-N5DE-AGFA
Registered charity1
Deux Mille Foundation
CA-E-W19T-NCZM
Registered charity1
Faith Community Baptist Church Of Souris INC
CA-E-BPYA-RPBP
Registered charity1
Family Services Of The North Shore Foundation
CA-E-QMRF-MB4C
Registered charity1
Fundamental Bible Church
CA-E-JB7M-VAPR
Registered charity1
Kenton Shiloh Pastoral Charge
CA-E-3YX8-S6YK
Registered charity1
Lifeline
CA-E-VGMQ-4G3R
Registered charity1
Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Foundation
CA-E-CXSA-J48M
Registered charity1
New Car Dealers Foundation Of BC
CA-E-JNFK-W9BK
Registered charity1
Ocean Wise Conservation Association
CA-E-AHMS-J59V
Registered charity1
Rose City Residential Support Society
CA-E-B5SY-83JJ
Registered charity1
Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation
CA-E-6TM5-13J4
Registered charity1
St John Society (british Columbia & Yukon)
CA-E-ER5E-5E3W
Registered charity1
TELUS Friendly Future Foundation
CA-E-P9WE-SV7J
Registered charity1
The Shawana Foundation
CA-E-4KQV-37DJ
Registered charity1
Ubc Alumni Association Educational Endowment Trust
CA-E-QMXR-NMVV
Registered charity1
United for Literacy Foundation
CA-E-GRY1-YGZ8
Registered charity1
United Way British Columbia
CA-E-H283-43S1
Registered charity1
University of Vancouver
CA-E-229G-4G42
Registered charity1
Vancouver Museum Society
CA-E-THYT-KV8M
Registered charity1
Vso School Of Music Society
CA-E-ASM2-6AJ9
Registered charity1

Showing the 25 strongest of 27.

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 June 30, 2024
Total revenue
$23,886,629
Total spending
$23,611,682
Total assets
$6,637,840
Total liabilities
$5,462,105
Receipted donations
$1,828,937
From other charities
$3,883,168
Granted onward
$216,666
Charitable programs83.6% · $19.7M · line 5000
Management and administration8.6% · $2.0M · line 5010
Fundraising7.8% · $1.8M · 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.
Public money on record
Federal grants and contributions
$4,557,252

across 16 agreements, 2018–2025

2018$1.9M
2019$13K
2020$683K
2021$566K
2022$160K
2023$594K
2024$334K
2025$268K
Paying institutionAwardsValue
Canadian Heritage8$4,459,611
Employment and Social Development Canada8$97,641
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
Community Association
Licensed as
Association or Society
Industry code
81
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 — Canadian Heritage$256,139
  2. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  3. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$11,566
  4. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$322,246
  5. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  6. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$11,276
  7. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$588,894
  8. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  9. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$5,070
  10. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$10,196
  11. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$150,000
  12. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$544,878
  13. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$21,280
  14. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$664,309
  15. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$18,948
  16. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$13,233
  17. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$1,207,968
  18. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$725,177
  19. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$6,072
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 0G4
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
  • Same name and address — 500 833 seymour, vancouver, BC
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency
  • Same name and address — 833 seymour, vancouver, BC
    asserted 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
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.

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