Pacific Coast Public Television Association
Vancouver, BC V6B 2K4
Executive Director: Diana Barkley
Board Chair: Deirdre Campbell
Website: www.kcts9.org/kcts-9-in-canada
Charitable Reg. #: 13187 9744 RR0001
Charity Rating
Donor Accountability
Grade: F
The grade is based on the charity's public reporting of the work it does and the results it achieves.Financial Transparency
Need for Funding
Spending Breakdown
Full-time staff #0
Avg. Compensation $0
Top 10 Staff Salary Range
| $350k + | 0 |
| $300k - $350k | 0 |
| $250k - $300k | 0 |
| $200k - $250k | 0 |
| $160k - $200k | 0 |
| $120k - $160k | 0 |
| $80k - $120k | 0 |
| $40k - $80k | 0 |
| < $40k | 0 |
About Pacific Coast Public Television Association:
The Pacific Coast Public Television Association (PCPTA) is a charitable organization that focuses on educational television programming. It underwrites various daily educational non-commercial television programming to British Columbia and throughout Canada. It supports public television and KCTS 9 television.
KCTS 9 is a Washington-based television broadcasting company affiliated with PBS. It is a non-profit, community-licensed, publicly supported organization broadcasting American programs about arts, culture, science, film, food, kids, and current affairs. Pacific Coast Public Television Association is the Canadian funding partner of KCTS 9. The channels can be viewed in Canada through Shaw Cable and Bell ExpressVu.
PCPTA reported no full-time and 2 part-time staff, with average compensation of $78,089, on its T3010 CRA filing in 2016. In April 2016, the charity released a letter from the board of directors which noted that they would be reevaluating the future of PCPTA in Canada as changes in regulatory decisions threatened its charitable status. There has been no follow-up to this restructuring, but PCPTA is still operating as a registered charity in Canada.
Financial Review:
Pacific Coast Public Television Association is a medium-sized charity with $2.5m in donations in F2016. In F2016, PCPTA’s administrative costs were 3% of revenues and its fundraising costs were 47% of donations. As such, for every $1 donated, 50 cents went to the cause. This falls outside of Charity Intelligence's reasonable range for overhead spending. Funding reserves of $282k can cover less than 2 months of programming.
Ci used unaudited financial statements and the charity's T3010 filing with the CRA as audited financial statements were not available.
This charity report is an update that is currently being reviewed by Pacific Coast Public Television Association. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.
Updated on July 17, 2017 by Juliana Badovinac.
Financial RatiosFiscal year ending June |
2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative costs as % of revenues | 2.9% | 0.7% | 0.3% |
| Fundraising costs as % of donations | 46.7% | 52.8% | 49.1% |
| Program cost coverage (%) | 13.6% | 21.6% | 6.1% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $s |
2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donations | 2,487,219 | 2,865,241 | 2,685,509 |
| Investment income | 378 | 116 | 5 |
| Other income | 757,329 | 1,059,001 | 1,128,862 |
| Total revenues | 3,244,926 | 3,924,358 | 3,814,376 |
| Program costs | 2,079,050 | 2,438,000 | 2,490,000 |
| Administrative costs | 94,774 | 27,942 | 13,050 |
| Fundraising costs | 1,162,448 | 1,511,786 | 1,317,592 |
| Cash flow from operations | (91,346) | (53,370) | (6,266) |
| Funding reserves | 282,020 | 526,195 | 152,878 |
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Comments added by the Charity:
No comments have been added by the charity.
In 2015, Public Television Association of Quebec (PTAQ), an organization that operates in a similar manner to PCPTA, had its charitable status revoked by the CRA1. The CRA concluded that PTAQ was acting as an intermediary for Canadian donors to receive tax-credits on donations to Vermont ETV Incorporated (Vermont PBS), an American organization. PTAQ appealed its proposed revocation, which was dismissed by the Court of Appeal. This ruling may have industry-wide impacts on charities similar to PTAQ, including PCPTA2.
As of July 19th, 2017, Pacific Coast Public Television Association is still a registered charity per the CRA.
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1: FCA Dismisses Appeal of Revocation of Charity Status. (2015, July 31). Retrieved July 19, 2017, from www.canadiantaxlitigation.com/fca-dismisses-appeal-of-revocation-of-charity-status
2: Potential Impact on Canadian Charity Operations in light of Revocation Case. (2015, October 13). Retrieved July 19, 2017, from www.imaginecanada.ca/who-we-are/whats-new/news/potential-impact-canadian-charity-operations-light-revocation-case