BC Women's Health Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 890267537RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($9,621,165) as filed with the CRA.
BC Women's Health Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $8.6M in revenue and $9.6M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 24% from government, 25% from other charities. In 2024, 51 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.2M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 94% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $5.8M in 2024, the largest being $3.9M to Provincial Health Services Authority. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Ongoing programs of the BC Women's Health Foundation include: direct mail special events grant applications major gift fundraising and capital campaigns. Donations are primarily used to provide capital equipment and program/research funding to BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre and Women's Health Research Institute (WHRI) as well as for education and awareness of Women's Health across the province of BC.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.6M | $9.6M | $177K | $2.6M | $5.9M | $20.1M |
| 2023 | $8.8M | $9M | $424K | $2.7M | $4.6M | $19.9M |
| 2022 | $11.1M | $8.7M | $824K | $1.6M | $5.2M | $20.9M |
| 2021 | $12M | $11.8M | $1.3M | $1.1M | $8.7M | $18.2M |
| 2020 | $10.4M | $9M | $1.9M | $1.7M | $4.3M | $17.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $5.8M to 4 qualified donees:
- Provincial Health Services Authority$3.9M
- The University of British Columbia$1.9M
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research$80K
- Fraser Region Aboriginal Friendship Centre Association$16K
Received $2.2M from 51 charities:
- The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation$327K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$270K
- Y.P. Heung Foundation$210K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$180K
- Diamond Foundation$127K
- Milan & Maureen Ilich Foundation$118K
- The Stuart and Susan Bird Family Foundation$100K
- The Auxiliary to British Columbia's Women's Hospital and Health Center$95K
- Vancouver Foundation$84K
- Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation$84K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$71K
- Face the World Foundation$50K
- Longhedge Foundation$50K
- Music Heals Charitable Foundation$38K
- Aqueduct Foundation$35K
- S.M. Blair Family Foundation$35K
- Lingyen Mountain Temple (canada)$30K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$26K
- Thomas Skidmore Legacy Foundation$25K
- TB Vets Charitable Foundation$23K
- Fondation Sandra Schmirler Foundation$22K
- Randall Foundation$22K
- Mel and Geri Davis Charitable Trust$15K
- W J Weaver Foundation$15K
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$15K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$2.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Karen Kerr (vice chair); Cheryl Davies (director); Kate Bayne (director); Philippe Arrata (treasurer); Cathy Imrie (director); James Speakman (secretary); Jennifer Randall Nelson (chair); Les Staff (director); Gopi Chande (director); Gavin Stuart (director); Khaleeda Jamal (director); Maria Zeldis (director); Stephanie Rhone (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from BC Women's Health Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890267537RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.