Face the World Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 896579737RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($979,771) as filed with the CRA.
Face the World Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $980K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 49% from donations. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $567K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 63 qualified donees totalling $567K in 2024, the largest being $50K to BC Women's Health Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $403K in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Provide funding to a variety of charitable organizations which provide assistance to the poor the homeless the abused and those people in society who desperately need help.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $980K | — | — | $568K | $4.5M |
| 2023 | $400K | $376K | — | — | $333K | $3.8M |
| 2022 | $21K | $361K | $57K | — | $305K | $3.7M |
| 2021 | $821K | $248K | $55K | — | $193K | $4.1M |
| 2020 | $403K | $172K | $29K | — | $140K | $3.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $567K to 63 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- BC Women's Health Foundation$50K
- Arts Umbrella Association$40K
- Bill Reid Foundation$23K
- Music Heals Charitable Foundation$20K
- Learning Buddies Network of the Lower Mainland Society$20K
- BabyGoRound Helping Families Society$15K
- Vancouver Homework Club Society$14K
- Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland$12K
- Zajac Ranch Society$10K
- Wish Drop-In Centre Society$10K
- Vancouver Police Foundation$10K
- Treehouse Advocacy Centre Society Vancouver$10K
- Together We Can Drug & Alcohol Recovery & Education Society$10K
- Strathcona Community Centre Association (1972)$10K
- Saint James Music Academy$10K
- Mission Possible Compassionate Ministries Society$10K
- Jewish Family Services Agency of Vancouver$10K
- Change the World Foundation$10K
- First United Church Community Ministry Society$10K
- The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver$10K
- The Downtown Eastside Women's Centre Association$10K
- Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House Society$10K
- Crabtree - YWCA Metro Vancouver$10K
- Covenant House Vancouver$10K
- Cerebral Palsy Sports Association of B.C.$10K
Received $567K from 13 charities:
- Jacqui Cohen Family Foundation$200K
- Thomas Foundation$125K
- ZLC Foundation$61K
- Bosa Properties Charitable Foundation$53K
- Cliff Lede Family Charitable Foundation$47K
- Canada Gives$26K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$15K
- Concord Pacific Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$10K
- The Mel JR. & Marty Zajac Foundation$5,000
- Rory and Jane Young Foundation$3,000
- Rory and Jane Young Foundation$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jacqui Cohen (president); Blaine Culling (director); Vicki Gabereau (director); Christien Garofalo (director); Jill Killeen (director); Joy Macphail (director); Bruce Orr (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Face the World Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 896579737RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.