Discovery Foundation
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 123378820RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($435,205) as filed with the CRA.
Discovery Foundation is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $63K in revenue and $435K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 1,274 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 31% of peers.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $820K in 2020 to $63K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The discovery foundation promotes innovation and science for the benefit of all people of bc through the discovery foundation education program and available funds are distributed to universities and other eligible organizations as needed and identified.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $63K | $435K | $330K | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $59K | $447K | $370K | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $575K | $363K | $291K | — | — | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $790K | $402K | $337K | — | — | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $820K | $383K | $336K | — | — | $988K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bree Beveridge (director); Darrell Elliott (director); John English (director); Paul Geyer (director); David Harper (director); Kathy O'Donoghue (director); Morgan Sturdy (director); Jessica Verhangen (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Discovery Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 123378820RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.