Freybe Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 836113977RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($530,163) as filed with the CRA.
Freybe Foundation is a private foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $233K in revenue and $530K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 58% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 17 qualified donees totalling $485K in 2024, the largest being $386K to Griffin Art Projects Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The main charitable activity that the foundation carried our during the 2024 fiscal year was providing support to an art society. This art society operates to provide public exhibition space where private contemporary art collections can be displayed and viewed by members of the public without cost. This society also offers art education programs to school- aged children and in ternshop programs for business students from local colleges and universities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $233K | $530K | — | — | $485K | $3.9M |
| 2023 | $107K | $509K | — | — | $460K | $4.2M |
| 2022 | $352K | $492K | — | — | $448K | $4.6M |
| 2021 | $379K | $526K | — | — | $472K | $4.8M |
| 2020 | $276K | $741K | — | — | $681K | $4.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $485K to 17 qualified donees:
- Griffin Art Projects Society$386K
- National Gallery of Canada Foundation/fondation du Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada$50K
- The British Columbia Photography and Media Arts Society$20K
- Penticton Art Gallery Society$10K
- Vancouver Opera Foundation$5,000
- Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation$2,000
- Pen Canada the Canadian Centre of International Pen le Centre Canadien de Pen International$2,000
- Create Change Foundation$2,000
- The University of British Columbia$1,000
- Vancouver Association for Photographic Arts$1,000
- Toronto Photographers Workshop$1,000
- Vancouver Society for Early Music$1,000
- Cag Contemporary Art Gallery Society of British Columbia$1,000
- Aboriginal Mother Centre Society$1,000
- Western Front Foundation$500
- The Gordon and Marion Smith Foundation for Young Artists$500
- Arts Umbrella Association$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Henning Freybe (president); Brigitte Freybe (secretary); Anouchka Freybe (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Freybe Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 836113977RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.