Foundations for Social Change
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 794020883RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,061,472) as filed with the CRA.
Foundations for Social Change is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from donations, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $588K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 5% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $533K in 2020 to $1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Helping newly homeless from becoming entrenched in homelessness undertaking research and analysis of this issue.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $1.1M | $433K | $164K | — | $248K |
| 2023 | $2M | $1.9M | $1.6M | $156K | — | $284K |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.3M | $803K | $92K | — | $206K |
| 2021 | $612K | $592K | $176K | $55K | — | $46K |
| 2020 | $533K | $417K | $216K | $57K | — | $26K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $588K from 20 charities:
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$197K
- The Annual Foundation$80K
- Koerner Foundation$75K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- The McLean Foundation$34K
- The Varshney Family Charitable Foundation$25K
- Diamond Foundation$25K
- The Molson Foundation/fondation Molson$20K
- Vancouver Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$11K
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$10K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$10K
- West Vancouver Community Foundation$7,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,261
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,000
- Face the World Foundation$5,000
- The Coquitlam Foundation$3,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,460
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$48
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$514K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Velma McColl (board co-chair); Frans Tjallingii (boad co-chair); Jacqueline Koerner (board member); Natalie Michael (board member); Andrew Ried (board member); Beier Cai (board member); Jeremy Rienbolt (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Foundations for Social Change’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 794020883RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.