Beedie Luminaries Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Burnaby, British Columbia · BN 716781323RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,291,792) as filed with the CRA.
Beedie Luminaries Foundation is a private foundation based in Burnaby, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $14.5M in revenue and $6.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $97K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 53% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 19 qualified donees totalling $4.3M in 2024, the largest being $4.2M to Universities Canada Universités Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.9M in 2020 to $14.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The purposes of the foundation: 1. To advance education by providing publicly available scholarships bursaries and other forms of financial assistance to individuals to pursue post-secondary education in britsih columbia and expanding to other provinces in canada 2. To make grants of funds or other property to such other organizations as are qualified donees under the provisions of the income tax act canada; 3. To receive hold invest administer and distribute funds and property for the purposes of the society; and 4. To do all such other things as are incidental and ancillary t…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $14.5M | $6.3M | $1.4M | — | $4.3M | $61.8M |
| 2023 | $6M | $7.3M | $1.4M | — | $5.4M | $53.6M |
| 2022 | $440K | $6.3M | $1.1M | — | $4.8M | $54.9M |
| 2021 | $9.2M | $4.6M | $978K | — | $3.2M | $60.7M |
| 2020 | $3.9M | $3.1M | $11K | — | $2.1M | $56.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4.3M to 19 qualified donees:
- Universities Canada Universités Canada$4.2M
- Mayne Island Early Childhood Society$3,000
- Moresports Community Development Foundation$1,500
- First Book/le Premier Livre$1,500
- Vancouver Island University$1,500
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$1,500
- Surrey Food Bank Society$1,500
- Simon Fraser University$1,500
- Scouts Canada$1,500
- S.u.c.c.e.s.s. Foundation$1,500
- Pacific Ballet British Columbia Society$1,500
- Minerva Foundation for BC Women$1,500
- Breakthrough T1D Canada/Percée DT1 Canada$1,500
- Islamic Relief - Ir Canada$1,500
- Ceric$1,500
- Amref Health Africa in Canada$1,500
- Mamas for Mamas$500
- Canadian Women's Foundation$500
- BabyGoRound Helping Families Society$500
Received $97K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$854K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ryan Beedie (director); Jason Collins (director); Arthur Yuen (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Beedie Luminaries Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 716781323RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.