Langara College Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 829255132RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,740,683) as filed with the CRA.
Langara College Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $8.4M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 40% from other charities. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.4M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 71% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $369K in 2024, the largest being $369K to Langara College. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.7M in 2020 to $8.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Distributes awards and grants to Langara College students and funds other student related projects initiatives and programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.4M | $1.7M | $1.3M | — | $369K | $40.5M |
| 2023 | $5.1M | $1.5M | $1.1M | — | $338K | $33.9M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.6M | — | — | $632K | $30.3M |
| 2021 | $5.2M | $1.3M | $784K | — | $450K | $30.6M |
| 2020 | $4.7M | $1.4M | $964K | — | $355K | $26.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $369K to 1 qualified donee:
- Langara College$369K
Received $3.4M from 19 charities:
- Langara College$3M
- Vancouver Foundation$124K
- Y.P. Heung Foundation$75K
- RBC Foundation$75K
- Rainbow Foundation of Hope$43K
- Y.P. Heung Foundation$32K
- United Way British Columbia$22K
- The London Drugs Foundation$15K
- Chartered Professional Accountants' Education Foundation of British Columbia$15K
- Vancouver Unitarians Society$11K
- Moss Rock Park Foundation$10K
- CIFFA Cares$2,780
- Sydney J. Risk Foundation$2,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,699
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,596
- University Womens Club of Vancouver Trust Fund for Education$1,500
- Goel Family Charitable Foundation$500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$300
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bruce Hurst (chair); Alec Maclean (director); Stephen Lee (director); Jas Sandhu (director); Yusuf Varachia (director); Charlene Taylor (director); Paula Burns (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Langara College Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 829255132RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.