Decoda Literacy Foundation
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 841053333RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($392,763) as filed with the CRA.
Decoda Literacy Foundation is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $550K in revenue and $393K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 69% from donations, 30% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $121K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 68% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 80% of that peer group.
It reported gifts to 44 qualified donees totalling $338K in 2024, the largest being $60K to The Board of Education of School District No. 73 (Kamloops-Thompson). Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The Society had an agreement with Postmedia Network Inc. to run manage and administer its Raise-a-Reader campaign in B.C. starting 2019. The Society continued to receive foundation grants and donations from individual and corporate donors and ran the following programs (1) building a numeracy collection and tutor materials in our Resource Centre; (2) family literacy programs for immigrant families; and (3) one-to-one tutoring with vulnerable children reading below grade level; and (4) administering and distributing a bursary fund from The Vancouver Foundation for community-based adult li…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $550K | $393K | $21K | $11K | $338K | $248K |
| 2023 | $406K | $392K | $27K | $11K | $328K | $91K |
| 2022 | $364K | $355K | $18K | $1,840 | $330K | $76K |
| 2021 | $423K | $404K | $21K | $5,516 | $370K | $68K |
| 2020 | $452K | $446K | $12K | $9,778 | $417K | $48K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $338K to 44 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Board of Education of School District No. 73 (Kamloops-Thompson)$60K
- Project Literacy Central Okanagan Society$44K
- Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy$42K
- Carney Hill Neighbourhood Centre Society$34K
- Yellowhead Community Services Society$21K
- Association of Neighbourhood Houses of British Columbia$20K
- Capilano University$16K
- Cariboo-Chilcotin Partners for Literacy Society$12K
- Salt Spring Literacy Society$10K
- Mount Waddington Family Literacy Society$10K
- Literacy Society of the North Okanagan$10K
- Literacy Alberni Society$9,700
- Vancouver Public Library Foundation$5,939
- Canucks for Kids Fund$5,939
- Simon Fraser University$4,658
- Story Studio Writing Society$3,553
- Langley School District Foundation$2,316
- The Board of Education of School District No. 43 (Coquitlam)$2,018
- Mission Literacy in Motion Association$1,795
- The Family Education and Support Centre$1,403
- Burnaby Neighbourhood House Society$1,403
- Richmond Family Place Society$1,326
- Boys and Girls Clubs of South Coast BC$1,326
- The Lower Mainland Purpose Society for Youth and Families$1,249
- Chilliwack Learning Society$1,249
Received $121K from 14 charities:
- Al Roadburg Foundation$30K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$20K
- Vancouver Foundation$13K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,986
- John Hardie Mitchell Family Foundation$5,000
- Lohn Foundation$2,000
- The Payton Taylor Charitable Foundation$2,000
- R & J Stern Family Foundation$1,000
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
- The Coffey Family Foundation$500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$65
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
William (Ralf) St. Clair (director and chair of board); Pat Campbell (director); Manmeet Bhatia (treasurer and secretary); Eunice Bantok (director); Tracy Defoe (director); Lynn Green (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Decoda Literacy Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 841053333RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.