Makeway Charitable Society
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 130560188RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($36,957,128) as filed with the CRA.
Makeway Charitable Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under environment. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $40.1M in revenue and $37M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 23% from government, 52% from other charities. In 2024, 119 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $13.9M.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 121 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 20 qualified donees totalling $1.9M in 2024, the largest being $697K to Council of the Haida Nation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $21.5M in 2020 to $40.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
MakeWay Charitable Society's purpose is to build partnerships and solutions that help nature and communities thrive together. The organization operates through a shared platform conducting 68 projects across the country. Project work ranges from neighbourhood social programs to national conservation efforts.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $40.1M | $37M | $28.2M | $331K | $2.6M | $24.3M |
| 2023 | $33.2M | $33.4M | $26.8M | $199K | $1.6M | $21.2M |
| 2022 | $38.1M | $28M | $22.7M | $139K | $1.5M | $21.5M |
| 2021 | $27.9M | $22.3M | $17.3M | $64K | $1.6M | $11.4M |
| 2020 | $21.5M | $20.7M | $16.3M | $76K | $1.2M | $5.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.9M to 20 qualified donees:
- Council of the Haida Nation$697K
- BenefAction Foundation$129K
- Makeway Foundation$126K
- Environmental Defence Canada$115K
- Kitselas First Nation$101K
- Ecojustice Canada Society$95K
- Kitsumkalum Band Council$91K
- Metlakatla$84K
- Haisla Nation$81K
- Gitxaala Nation$81K
- Gitga'at First Nation$81K
- Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment$53K
- Action Cancer du Sein du Québec - Breast Cancer Actio n Québec$44K
- The Dragonfly Fund$31K
- University of Victoria$25K
- Green Communities Canada$21K
- De Gaspe Beaubien Foundation la Fondation de Gaspe Beaubien$13K
- The Youth Connection Association for Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention$10K
- SkeenaWild Conservation Trust$10K
- Salmon Coast Society$10K
Received $13.9M from 119 charities:
- Mastercard Foundation$2.5M
- Mastercard Foundation$1.8M
- Mastercard Foundation$1.6M
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1.2M
- The Sitka Foundation$781K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$400K
- North Family Foundation$335K
- Definity Insurance Foundation$251K
- Ronald S. Roadburg Foundation$250K
- The Slaight Family Foundation$250K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$236K
- The Sprott Foundation$210K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$197K
- The Annual Foundation$180K
- The Veritas Foundation/La Fondation Veritas$175K
- Definity Insurance Foundation$150K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$125K
- The Sprott Foundation$115K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$100K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$100K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$100K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$100K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$90K
- The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation$90K
- Toronto Foundation$86K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions121
- Total compensation, all staff$16.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Erica Barbosa (director); Aerin Jacob (secretary); Denise Williams (chair); Leslie Campbell (director); Caroline Merner (director); Raisa Mirza (director); Biboye Agabana (director); Barend Van der Vorm (director); Cathy Galligos (director); MJ Sinha (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Makeway Charitable Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130560188RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.