Cause We Care Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 836700401RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,448,050) as filed with the CRA.
Cause We Care Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from donations, 20% from other charities. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $414K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 30 qualified donees totalling $917K in 2024, the largest being $304K to Universities Canada Universités Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $426K in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
To advance education and enhance the employability of low-income single mothers by providing funding for academic tuition vocational training and other employability training and for costs and expenses associated with undertaking such education and skills training programs and other activities that enhance employability; to relieve poverty experienced by low-income single mothers and their children by providing for basic life necessities such as food shelter clothing childcare transportation and community support services; to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $1.4M | — | $262K | $917K | $814K |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $28K | $199K | $733K | $549K |
| 2022 | $858K | $1.2M | $113K | $173K | $663K | $398K |
| 2021 | $476K | $777K | — | $145K | $468K | $495K |
| 2020 | $426K | $512K | — | $156K | $250K | $572K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $917K to 30 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Universities Canada Universités Canada$304K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver)$96K
- YWCA British Columbia$93K
- Mom to Mom Child Poverty Initiative Society$39K
- Mamas for Mamas$28K
- Cythera Transition House Society$28K
- First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society$28K
- The Kidsafe Project Society$25K
- Dress for Success Vancouver Society$25K
- Dixon Transition Society$24K
- Aunt Leah's Independent Lifeskills Society$20K
- Urbanpromise Ministries$20K
- Pals Autism Society$20K
- Marpole Oakridge Family Place Society$20K
- Learning Disabilities Society of Greater Vancouver$20K
- Association of Neighbourhood Houses of British Columbia$20K
- Ray-Cam Community Association$16K
- North Shore Crisis Services Society$15K
- Muslim Food Bank and Community Services Society$15K
- Family Services of the North Shore Foundation$13K
- BabyGoRound Helping Families Society$10K
- The Kidsafe Project Society$8,126
- North Shore Women's Centre Society$5,209
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$4,167
- North Shore Neighbourhood House$4,167
Received $414K from 28 charities:
- Aron Charitable Foundation$140K
- Vancouver Foundation$26K
- Trinity Pacific Foundation$25K
- Aqueduct Foundation$25K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$24K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$24K
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$20K
- ZLC Foundation$17K
- Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation$15K
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation$10K
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Dean Shillington Charitable Foundation$10K
- A.e. (ted) and Deanna M. Turton Charitable Foundation$10K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$9,813
- LRJ Charitable Foundation$7,500
- Canadian Medical Foundation$5,027
- Jewish Federation of British Columbia$5,000
- The Varshney Family Charitable Foundation$5,000
- LRJ Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The Giustra Foundation$5,000
- Quesnel Foundation$4,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,540
- The Highbury Foundation$2,500
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$2,500
- Mel and Geri Davis Charitable Trust$1,750
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$204K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrea Thomas Hill (president); Emily Davies (member at large); Vandana Varshney (member at large); Nancy Hill (member at large); Annabel Hawksworth (member at large); Joanna Cameron (member at large); Jennifer Archer (member at large); Anita Ghatak (member at large); Nicole Comey (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cause We Care Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 836700401RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.