B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 866683196RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,202,860) as filed with the CRA.
B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 26% from donations, 67% from other charities. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $988K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 36% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 25 qualified donees totalling $571K in 2024, the largest being $225K to Learning Disabilities Society of Greater Vancouver. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The foundation provides financial and human resources to charitable not for profit groups focused on community service. The foundation provides grants to qualified donees that provide services in the areas of: social services education and health. Some of the members of the foundation also volunteered to assist some organizations in advancing their missions.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $402K | — | $571K | $2.5M |
| 2023 | $983K | $994K | $344K | $23K | $393K | $2.4M |
| 2022 | $981K | $963K | $215K | $22K | $502K | $2.3M |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $849K | $109K | $5,585 | $471K | $2.5M |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $150K | $5,566 | $679K | $2.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $571K to 25 qualified donees:
- Learning Disabilities Society of Greater Vancouver$225K
- Pacific Immigrant Resources Society$38K
- New Westminster Family Place Society$37K
- Vancity Community Foundation$36K
- THS Society of Transition Houses$36K
- Urbanpromise Ministries$35K
- BabyGoRound Helping Families Society$34K
- Richmond Family Place Society$34K
- West Coast Kids Cancer Foundation$21K
- Laichwiltach Family Life Society$10K
- The Writers' Exchange Society$5,650
- Mom to Mom Child Poverty Initiative Society$5,600
- Fresh Roots Urban Farm Society$5,550
- The Art Starts in Schools Society$5,500
- Take a Hike Youth Mental Health Foundation$5,450
- Power to Be$5,325
- The Zero Ceiling Society of Canada$5,000
- Urban Horse Project Society$5,000
- Treehouse Advocacy Centre Society Vancouver$5,000
- Pedal Foundation$5,000
- Girls Who LEAP: Lead to Empower & Act with Purpose Society$5,000
- Blind Beginnings Society$5,000
- Deaf Children's Society of B C$750
- Growing Chefs Society$500
- One to One Literacy Society$400
Received $988K from 19 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$188K
- Canadahelps Canadon$188K
- Vancouver Foundation$94K
- BenefAction Foundation$81K
- PNG Enterprise Foundation$75K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$60K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$54K
- Raven Foundation$53K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$35K
- Walsh Foundation$27K
- Louis Family Foundation$25K
- Nicola Family Foundation$25K
- LRJ Charitable Foundation$25K
- The Giustra Foundation$20K
- Malberry Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$10K
- Paladin Foundation$6,000
- Conam Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The Varshney Family Charitable Foundation$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$464K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Ferguson (director); Nicole Geyer (director); David Rice (director); Lauren Minogue (director); Judy Gale (director); Jonathan Bradley (director); Joanne Norris (director); Meagan Sutton (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 866683196RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.