Lending a Hand Society
Private foundation · Surrey, British Columbia · BN 746666924RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($186,793) as filed with the CRA.
Lending a Hand Society is a private foundation based in Surrey, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $221K in revenue and $187K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 57% from donations. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $11K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 8 qualified donees totalling $99K in 2024, the largest being $84K to Yo Bro Yo Girl Youth Initiative Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $76K in 2020 to $221K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Lending a hand society was formed to raise money for other charities and programs which provide services for low-income and under-privileged children in british columbia.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $221K | $187K | — | $88K | $99K | $476K |
| 2023 | $275K | $247K | — | $69K | $178K | $441K |
| 2022 | $218K | $162K | — | $40K | $120K | $413K |
| 2021 | $156K | $42K | — | — | $42K | $357K |
| 2020 | $76K | $7,430 | — | — | $7,000 | $244K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, August 31, 2024
- Other gifts$107,960
- Investment income$53,789
- Receipted donations$18,340
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $99K to 8 qualified donees:
- Yo Bro Yo Girl Youth Initiative Society$84K
- Peninsula Community Foundation$3,000
- Langley Community Health and Hospital Foundation$2,500
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Society$2,500
- Mamas for Mamas$2,500
- Cloverdale Rodeo Youth Initiative Foundation$2,000
- Community First Foundation$1,500
- Canadian Cancer Society$512
Received $11K from 2 charities:
- Wesmont Foundation$8,700
- Knelson Family Foundation$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sunjeev Bath (director); Harjit Grewal (director); Steven Ponte (director); Parminder Purewall (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lending a Hand Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 746666924RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.