Belcum Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 872311915RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($197,384) as filed with the CRA.
Belcum Foundation is a private foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending October 31, 2024, it reported $276K in revenue and $197K in expenditures.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 28% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 29 qualified donees totalling $146K in 2024, the largest being $25K to The Wusc Refugee Fund. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $170K in 2020 to $276K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation made gifts to qualified donees
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $276K | $197K | — | — | $146K | $7.2M |
| 2023 | $352K | $206K | — | — | $132K | $7.1M |
| 2022 | $393K | $318K | — | — | $150K | $6.9M |
| 2021 | $4.8M | $207K | — | — | $160K | $6.9M |
| 2020 | $170K | $97K | — | — | $67K | $2.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $146K to 29 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Wusc Refugee Fund$25K
- Union Gospel Mission$15K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$10K
- Santa Maria House$6,000
- Alysha Canada$5,000
- Westminster Abbey Limited$5,000
- The Missionaries of Charity$5,000
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Vancouver$5,000
- Sanctuary Mental Health Society$5,000
- Catholic Renewal Ministries Canada$5,000
- Regent College$5,000
- Madonna House Apostolate Vancouver Society$5,000
- Life Restoration Ministries$5,000
- Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada$5,000
- Catholic Christian Outreach of Canada Inc$5,000
- ST. Paul's Foundation of Vancouver$3,000
- ST Paul's Indian Church Preservation Trust Fund$3,000
- Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver$3,000
- Imago Dei Christian Community$3,000
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of B.C. and Yukon$3,000
- Daybreak Point Bible Camp Society$3,000
- Covenant House Vancouver$3,000
- A Rocha Canada$3,000
- Kenza Help Mission$2,000
- Youth With A Mission (BC) Society$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Jeffrey Cummings (director); Janet Patricia Cummings (director); Jason Cummings.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Belcum Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 872311915RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.