Chris-Spencer Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 118853886RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($177,577) as filed with the CRA.
Chris-Spencer Foundation is a private foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $458K in revenue and $178K in expenditures.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 46% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 20 qualified donees totalling $144K in 2024, the largest being $10K to The University of British Columbia. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $96K in 2020 to $458K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The foundation contributes to registered charities whose aims and goals in whole or in part are intended to make young people better citizens of canada
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $458K | $178K | — | — | $144K | $2.5M |
| 2023 | $270K | $157K | — | — | $128K | $2.2M |
| 2022 | -$279K | $156K | — | — | $126K | $2.1M |
| 2021 | $337K | $146K | — | — | $114K | $2.5M |
| 2020 | $96K | $147K | — | — | $117K | $2.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $144K to 20 qualified donees:
- The University of British Columbia$10K
- Lumara Grief and Bereavement CARE Society$10K
- Leave Out Violence (LOVE) BC$10K
- Growing Chefs Society$10K
- West Coast Kids Cancer Foundation$10K
- Crisis Intervention and Public Information Society of Greater Victoria$10K
- Kids Play Youth Foundation$10K
- Fraser Region Community Justice Initiatives Association$10K
- Axis Theatre Society$10K
- Access Youth Outreach Services Society$9,600
- Zeezee Theatre Society$5,000
- Victoria Brain Injury Society$5,000
- The Green Thumb Players Society$5,000
- Blind Beginnings Society$5,000
- Take a Hike Youth Mental Health Foundation$5,000
- Richmond Therapeutic Riding Association$5,000
- BC Wheelchair Basketball Society$5,000
- Carousel Theatre Society$4,500
- Vancouver Opera Association$2,500
- Theatre la Seizieme$2,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Armstrong (chairman); Elizabeth-Anne Armstrong (secretary); Belinda Boyd (director); David Lafolnd (director); Gillian Edworthy (director); Collins Kristina (direcrtor).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chris-Spencer Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118853886RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.