Lookout Foundation
Public foundation · New Westminster, British Columbia · BN 825756406RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,691,693) as filed with the CRA.
Lookout Foundation is a public foundation based in New Westminster, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $5M in revenue and $5.7M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $439K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 91% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 89% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 28 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1.9M in 2024, the largest being $1.9M to Lookout Housing and Health Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.1M in 2020 to $5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Service and support for low-income people including women seniors disabilities; fundraising finance and administration; mission minimum community garden; peer support; susan croll education fund new peers support for duncan/north cowichan health program savage society lytton relief program mom stops the harm and peers supports @ cedar valley abbotsford lonzo shower program langley health center program djaef mahler grocery holiday program surrey dental clinic summer student pay suppliments blanket bc support and leep
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5M | $5.7M | $3.8M | $15K | $1.9M | $2M |
| 2023 | $4.5M | $4M | $3.3M | $44K | $687K | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $3.9M | $3.6M | $2.7M | $14K | $899K | $2.2M |
| 2021 | $4M | $3.9M | $2.3M | $1,000 | $1.6M | $2M |
| 2020 | $3.1M | $2.7M | $2.3M | $21K | $346K | $1.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.9M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $439K from 15 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$159K
- Canadahelps Canadon$159K
- Lookout Housing and Health Society$65K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$20K
- Sutherland Foundation Inc$15K
- Fibromyalgia Well Spring Foundation$8,275
- West Vancouver Community Foundation$5,000
- West Vancouver Baptist Church$4,002
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,500
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$656
- Baptist Housing Oak Bay Care Society$300
- Christian Science Society Duncan$200
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$93
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$41
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions28
- Total compensation, all staff$3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Greg Robins (board president); Amber Davey (treasurer/secretary); Zahra Esmail (board director); John Richmond (board director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lookout Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 825756406RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.