British Columbia Paraplegic Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 118818798RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($992,884) as filed with the CRA.
British Columbia Paraplegic Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $993K in expenditures.
In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $6,264.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 91% 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 1 qualified donee totalling $811K in 2024, the largest being $811K to Canadian Paraplegic Association BC DBA Spinal Cord Injury BC. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The main purpose of the BC Paraplegic Foundation ('the Foundation') is to acquire funds from the community of assisting persons with spinal cored injuries and related disabilities achieve independence self reliance and full community participation . The Foundation donates yearly to the Spinal Cord Injury Organization of BC (SCI-BC) formerly known as BC Paraplegic Association. The Foundation also gives grants for equipment transportation housing and education to individual applicants.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $993K | $109K | — | $856K | $11.7M |
| 2023 | $959K | $725K | $139K | $3 | $551K | $11.5M |
| 2022 | $2.9M | $586K | — | — | $421K | $11.2M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $490K | — | — | $354K | $8.9M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $488K | $3,000 | $4 | $325K | $8.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Other income$651,935
- Investment income$359,694
- Other gifts$26,891
- Receipted donations$1,500
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 $811K to 1 qualified donee:
- Canadian Paraplegic Association BC DBA Spinal Cord Injury BC$811K
Received $6,264 from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ed Milligan (director); Danvir Roopra (director); Peter Webster (chair); Tim Brown (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from British Columbia Paraplegic Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118818798RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.