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.
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.