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Registered charity

Vancouver Symphony Foundation

Legal name on the register: VANCOUVER SYMPHONY FOUNDATION

CA-E-X3Y8-N2BTFormerBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources
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
Vancouver licence
4495201
Vancouver licence
4642745
Vancouver licence
4860435
Vancouver licence no.
24-113584
Vancouver licence no.
25-135022
Vancouver licence no.
26-137851
Registrations
RegistrarInstrumentNumberRegisteredStatus
Canada Revenue AgencyRegistered charity119282283RR0001Registered
Canada Revenue AgencyRegistered charity854107554RR0001Registered
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.

Public money on record
Federal grants and contributions
$14,214,050

across 35 agreements, 2006–2025

2006$251K
2008$523K
2009$353K
2010$540K
2011$498K
2012$321K
2013$388K
2014$426K
2015$2.0M
2016$1.3M
2017$813K
2018$3.2M
2019$673K
2020$683K
2021$566K
2022$468K
2023$594K
2024$334K
2025$268K
Paying institutionAwardsValue
Canadian Heritage22$13,696,702
Employment and Social Development Canada13$517,348
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.
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 — Canadian Heritage$307,751
  11. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$10,196
  12. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$150,000
  13. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$544,878
  14. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$21,280
  15. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$664,309
  16. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$18,948
  17. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$660,115
  18. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$13,233
  19. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$1,207,968
  20. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$725,177
  21. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$6,072
  22. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$1,297,037
  23. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$812,862
  24. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$1,305,048
  25. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$1,930,483
  26. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$44,000
  27. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$426,409
  28. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$50,000
  29. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$338,310
  30. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$50,000
  31. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$271,253
  32. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$434,899
  33. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$62,684
  34. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$326,705
  35. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$213,023
  36. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$353,101
  37. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$522,589
  38. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$250,529
Why this is one record

4 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 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 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

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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