Kurumbuka Leadership Solutions Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Langley, British Columbia · BN 721116713RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,086,446) as filed with the CRA.
Kurumbuka Leadership Solutions Foundation is a charitable organization based in Langley, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from donations, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $338K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 14% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 21 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $234K in 2020 to $1.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
1. Operate leadership development programs for executive and emerging leaders issuing post-secondary certificates and offering graduate level programs to african leaders in partnership with accredited canadian universities and colleges. 2. Provide publicly available scholarships and bursaries for african leaders from disadvantaged backgrounds or underprivileged groups to be used for post- secondary education. 3. Receiving and maintaining a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principle or income therefrom from time to time to qualified donees as described in subsection 149.1(1)…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.1M | $811K | $155K | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $960K | $1M | $715K | $129K | — | $959K |
| 2022 | $907K | $794K | $531K | $132K | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $902K | $190K | $153K | $23K | — | $896K |
| 2020 | $234K | $133K | $41K | $9,535 | $77K | $103K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $338K from 21 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$60K
- Bridgeway Foundation$50K
- The Charis Foundation$30K
- Open Bible Chapel Foundation$25K
- The Great Commission Foundation$25K
- Coram Deo Foundation$25K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$22K
- Abundance Canada$20K
- Kehila Foundation$15K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$12K
- The Way Church$11K
- Wesmont Foundation$10K
- Wesmont Foundation$10K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$9,040
- The Aslan Foundation$5,000
- Pacific Community Church$3,000
- Beyond BC Greenhouse Charitable Foundation$3,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$971
- Ally Global Foundation$636
- BenefAction Foundation$500
- Canadahelps Canadon$436
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions21
- Total compensation, all staff$656K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Claudio Morelli (vice chair); Mike Richardson (director); Paul Townsend (treasurer); Carson Pue (board chair); Monique Driedger (director); Brian Wallis (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kurumbuka Leadership Solutions Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 721116713RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.