Cedar Foundation
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 866085632RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,155,796) as filed with the CRA.
Cedar Foundation is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $3.3M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from other charities. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $3.6M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $200,000–249,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The cedar southern california scholarship program is an ongoing and continuous multivaceted 4 to 5 year university completion program that seeks to provide an individualized bundle of services directly to students who meet the academic and financial need based criteria. The bundle of services include tuition and associated educational expenses as well as mentoring career counseling and assisting the scholar in meeting all of their educational needs and requirements to successfully complete a university degree program
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $2.2M | $2.1M | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $2.5M | $2.5M | — | — | $579K |
| 2022 | $2.2M | $1.9M | $1.9M | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.6M | — | — | $926K |
| 2020 | $3.1M | $2.6M | $256K | — | — | $841K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3.6M from 1 charity:
- Access Foundation$3.6M
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$613K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lynda Bentall (director); Gerardo Avila (director); Charles Curtis (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cedar Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 866085632RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.