Aron Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 704718477RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,154,743) as filed with the CRA.
Aron Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $429K in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 18 qualified donees totalling $2.1M in 2024, the largest being $1M to The Vancouver Art Gallery Association. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $9.6M in 2021 to $429K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation makes gifts to qualified donees
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $429K | $2.2M | — | — | $2.1M | $10.6M |
| 2023 | $5.1M | $1.7M | — | — | $1.7M | $12.4M |
| 2022 | $45K | $613K | — | — | $590K | $8.9M |
| 2021 | $9.6M | $127K | — | — | $115K | $9.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, July 31, 2024
- Investment income$274,858
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.1M to 18 qualified donees:
- The Vancouver Art Gallery Association$1M
- Queen's University at Kingston$625K
- Vancouver Police Foundation$175K
- Cause We Care Foundation$140K
- The Fraser Institute$50K
- Junior Achievement of British Columbia$30K
- Sarah McLachlan School of Music Society$25K
- Arts Umbrella Association$25K
- Learning Disabilities Society of Greater Vancouver$10K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$10K
- Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland$10K
- Coast Mental Health Foundation$10K
- BC Cancer Foundation$7,500
- Zajac Ranch Society$5,000
- Covenant House Vancouver$5,000
- Chor Leoni Choral Society$5,000
- Music Heals Charitable Foundation$2,750
- Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration Foundation$2,597
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brian Hill (director); Andrea Thomas (chair director); David Pfeifer (secretary treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Aron Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 704718477RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.