BC Cancer Foundation
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 118818434RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($63,735,000) as filed with the CRA.
BC Cancer Foundation is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $85M in revenue and $63.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from donations, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 210 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $15.3M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 19% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 94 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $44M in 2024, the largest being $44M to BC Cancer. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. We enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on improvements to cancer care for patients in british columbia. We believe that together bc can break down cancer.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $85M | $63.7M | — | $12.4M | $44M | $432.5M |
| 2023 | $226.3M | $64.7M | — | $10M | $44.3M | $398.1M |
| 2022 | $77.1M | $38.9M | — | $8.2M | $25.6M | $236.5M |
| 2021 | $50.3M | $41.2M | — | $7.9M | $28.8M | $201.4M |
| 2020 | $72.6M | $50.2M | $4.9M | — | $32.3M | $169.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $44M to 1 qualified donee:
- BC Cancer$44M
Received $15.3M from 210 charities:
- Aqueduct Foundation$1.9M
- Diamond Foundation$1.7M
- Vancouver Foundation$1.5M
- Leon Judah Blackmore Foundation$1.5M
- Moffat Foundation Inc.$1M
- The Rix Family Foundation$1M
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$729K
- The Peterson Group Foundation$400K
- Krysko Family Foundation$395K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$349K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$305K
- The Victoria Foundation$276K
- Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation$275K
- Senft Family Foundation$271K
- Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation$235K
- Canadahelps Canadon$178K
- Canadahelps Canadon$178K
- Ronald S. Roadburg Foundation$153K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$151K
- BenefAction Foundation$146K
- Central Okanagan Foundation$139K
- Canada Gives$131K
- The Cardinal Foundation$123K
- Raindrop Foundation$100K
- Jemini Foundation$100K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over2 positions
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9992 positions
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions94
- Total compensation, all staff$11.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John McCarthy (director); Alex Blodgett (director); Geoffrey Glotman (director); Neil Burns (director); Michael Borden (director); Miranda Lam (director); Tamara Napoleon (director); Bruson Etienne (director); Launi Skinner (director); Neil Farmer (director); Kim Chi (ex officio director); Lana Kirk (director); David Byres (ex officio director); Shelly Appleton Benko (director); Brent Cameron (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from BC Cancer Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118818434RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.