British Columbia · Registered charity
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SOCIETY
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$505,750 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$118,855). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$1.4M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- C$506k
- Net assets
- C$386k
What Vancouver International Children's Festival Society does
Ongoing programs
The Vancouver International Children's Festival Society presented a fully in person festival from May 27-June 2nd 2024. We presented 14 international national and regional live shows plus hands on arts activities resulting in 75 performances 2 workshops and 12 hands on arts activities created and performed by 74 artists 60% of them from British Columbia. 19 631 school children and families attended the festival and over 50% of our shows were sold out. We used 6 theatres on Granville Island: Granville Island Stage The Nest Carousel Studio A Waterfront Theatre Performance Works and the Revue Stage.
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from C$153k to C$543k (+256%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 34% · 2018 37% · 2019 44% · 2020 85% · 2021 69% · 2022 60% · 2023 64% · 2024 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (10% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose C$53k → C$148k.
From the CRA filings of VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 30% · 2019 25% · 2020 31% · 2021 32% · 2022 26% · 2023 40% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
48% of VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
73% of VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from British Columbia funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SOCIETY's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 380 arts nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government revenue VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 50% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SOCIETY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In British Columbia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SOCIETY?
- VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SOCIETY (British Columbia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$505,750 to it, the largest being VANCOUVER FOUNDATION (C$118,855). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 26 organizations giving C$505,750 in grants to VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SOCIETY, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SOCIETY?
- VANCOUVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$118,855 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 26 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register