Blossoms Charitable Society
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 826021032RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($495,307) as filed with the CRA.
Blossoms Charitable Society 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 $512K in revenue and $495K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $10K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $327K in 2024, the largest being $312K to Hopehill Living in Community Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $166K in 2020 to $512K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Blossoms focuses on the fundraising and special events for the tenants of Hopehill group with the goal of providing Vancouver seniors with affordable housing in a safe comfortable caring healthy and relaxed community. blossoms helps in raising distributing and administrating funding for this purpose
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $512K | $495K | $15K | $96K | $327K | $258K |
| 2023 | $2M | $2M | $9,230 | $89K | $1.8M | $242K |
| 2022 | $337K | $339K | $24K | $84K | $174K | $238K |
| 2021 | $197K | $224K | $28K | $48K | $128K | $240K |
| 2020 | $166K | $123K | $19K | $1,029 | $89K | $267K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$349,915
- Other gifts$146,282
- Investment income$12,167
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $327K to 2 qualified donees:
- Hopehill Living in Community Society$312K
- Canadian Baptists of Western Canada$15K
Received $10K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jeff Breuls (president); Lynda Palmer (director); John Ogilvie (sec-tres); Doug Powell (director); Shirley Sarah Tan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Blossoms Charitable Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 826021032RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.