Aunt Leah's Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 845142173RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($404,119) as filed with the CRA.
Aunt Leah's Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $8.4M in revenue and $404K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $47K.
Compared with 47 grantmaking institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 7% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $319K in 2020 to $8.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The Foundation owns and maintains residential properties for other registered charities that provide support programs and housing for foster children and mothers and children in danger of becoming homeless.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.4M | $404K | $133K | $0 | $0 | $10.2M |
| 2023 | $932K | $355K | $0 | $0 | $72K | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $776K | $241K | $0 | $0 | $0 | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $323K | $262K | — | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $319K | $280K | — | — | — | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $47K from 9 charities:
- Intracorp Canadian Foundation$15K
- Aqueduct Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,606
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,429
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,250
- Vancouver Foundation$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$306
- United Way of Greater Toronto$100
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$70
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$108K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ryan Lucy (director); Anita Haidar (director); Megan Halprin (director); Nancy Hill (director); Priya Kumar (director); Don Wong (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Aunt Leah's Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 845142173RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.