Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119034064RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($908,910) as filed with the CRA.
Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.9M in revenue and $909K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 57% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 70 qualified donees totalling $816K in 2024, the largest being $150K to Vancouver Opera Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $494K in 2020 to $1.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation funds facilitates promotes and carry out activities and programs which are beneficial to the community as a whole. The distribution of funds to qualified donees as per the attached schedule represent the 2024 program for the foundation
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.9M | $909K | — | — | $816K | $10.2M |
| 2023 | $1M | $521K | — | — | $432K | $9.2M |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $477K | — | — | $429K | $8.7M |
| 2021 | $508K | $448K | — | — | $399K | $8M |
| 2020 | $494K | $427K | — | — | $381K | $8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $816K to 70 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Vancouver Opera Foundation$150K
- Music in the Morning Concert Society$100K
- Vancouver Recital Society$50K
- Pacific Region International Summer Music Association$50K
- Vancouver Recital Society$40K
- Vancouver Opera Foundation$30K
- Vancouver Recital Society$25K
- Vancouver Opera Foundation$21K
- Callanish Healing Retreats Society$20K
- Vancouver Symphony Society$15K
- Vancouver Recital Society$15K
- Vetta Chamber Music Society$10K
- The University of British Columbia$10K
- Turning Point Ensemble$10K
- Saint James Music Academy$10K
- Musica Intima Society$10K
- Music in the Morning Concert Society$10K
- First United Spiritualist Church of Vancouver$10K
- Elektra Choral Society$10K
- City Opera of Vancouver Society$10K
- City Opera of Vancouver Society$10K
- Cause We Care Foundation$10K
- Cause We Care Foundation$10K
- Pacific Ballet British Columbia Society$10K
- Vetta Chamber Music Society$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Martha Henley (president); Genevieve Taylor (secretary); Robert King.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119034064RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.