Forum For Women Entrepreneurs In British Columbia
Publicly funded institution · Burnaby, British Columbia · BN 861056646RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($4,165,921) as filed with the CRA.
Forum For Women Entrepreneurs In British Columbia is a charitable organization based in Burnaby, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $4.6M in revenue and $4.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 51% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $421K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 24 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.6M in 2020 to $4.6M in 2024.
In its own words
Educates and mentors women entrepreneurs of all sizes stages and industries from across canada through its leading-edge programs and facilitates connections within the business community to promote business growth
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.6M | $4.2M | $2.3M | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $2M | $1.4M | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $1.4M | $448K | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1.3M | $769K | — | — | $774K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $421K from 18 charities:
- LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact$150K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$73K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$54K
- Canada Gives$30K
- Charles & Eve Chang Foundation$25K
- BenefAction Foundation$13K
- Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation$10K
- Vancouver Foundation$10K
- Cidel Foundation$10K
- The Giustra Foundation$10K
- United Way British Columbia$9,984
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$6,500
- The Joseph Segal Family Foundation$5,000
- Cidel Foundation$5,000
- ZLC Foundation$5,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,650
- The Varshney Family Charitable Foundation$2,250
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$575
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- $40,000–79,99915 positions
- Permanent full-time positions24
- Total compensation, all staff$1.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Forum For Women Entrepreneurs In British Columbia’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 861056646RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.