Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 889542395RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($41,267,660) as filed with the CRA.
Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $77.8M in revenue and $41.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 62% from donations. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.1M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 998 qualified donees totalling $39.5M in 2024, the largest being $5.5M to CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada). Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $42M in 2020 to $77.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $77.8M | $41.3M | — | — | $39.5M | $364.6M |
| 2023 | $114.8M | $30.1M | — | — | $28.6M | $328.1M |
| 2022 | $58M | $34.1M | — | — | $32.8M | $243.4M |
| 2021 | $122.2M | $31M | — | — | $29.8M | $219.6M |
| 2020 | $42M | $10.2M | — | — | $9.5M | $128.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $39.5M to 998 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$5.5M
- Canadian Associates of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev Inc.$2.1M
- Apostolic Church of Pentecost of Canada Incorporated$1.2M
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev$1.2M
- Union Gospel Mission$1.1M
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1.1M
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$1M
- The Vancouver Art Gallery Association$828K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$653K
- Canada Soccer Foundation$650K
- Richmond Hospital Foundation$628K
- Mennonite Educational Institute Society$600K
- Covenant House Vancouver$588K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$514K
- Pacific Parkinson's Research Institute - Vancouver Canada Society$501K
- The Sullivan Urology Foundation$500K
- OneSky Foundation (Canada) Inc.$500K
- The University of British Columbia$455K
- Arts Umbrella Association$419K
- Canuck Place Children's Hospice$390K
- VGH & Ubc Hospital Foundation$377K
- Whole Way House Society$351K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$308K
- The Canadian National Institute For The Blind$304K
- University of Victoria$292K
Received $2.1M from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Wayman Crosby (chair/secretary/treasury); Kim Buksa (director); Lauri Thompson (director); Timothy Stranks (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889542395RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.