Mindset Social Innovation Foundation
Private foundation · West Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 864635438RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($267,888) as filed with the CRA.
Mindset Social Innovation Foundation is a private foundation based in West Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $167K in revenue and $268K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 73% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 5 qualified donees totalling $584K in 2023, the largest being $204K to Rainbow Railroad. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $653K in 2020 to $167K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
To educate the general public by conducting research into the maintenance and observance of human rights and to disseminate to educators and the general public the results of such research utilizing a variety of different media; to support organizations committed to develop build and scale social innovations for social impact; to invest administer and distribute the society's funds and property for the foregoing purposes to organizations that are 'qualified donees' under the provisions of the income tax act (canada); and to do all such other things as are incidental and ancillary to the at…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $167K | $268K | $50K | — | $200K | $2M |
| 2023 | $283K | $631K | $29K | — | $584K | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $266K | $422K | $9,952 | — | $393K | $2.3M |
| 2021 | $320K | $348K | $16K | — | $316K | $2.9M |
| 2020 | $653K | $132K | $9,586 | — | $105K | $2.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Granted $584K to 5 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Alison Lawton (director); Juliet Smith (director); Laura Schoenmakers (director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mindset Social Innovation Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 864635438RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.