Nikkei Place Foundation
Public foundation · Burnaby, British Columbia · BN 866135056RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($872,501) as filed with the CRA.
Nikkei Place Foundation is a public foundation based in Burnaby, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $768K in revenue and $873K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 65% from donations, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $175K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 26% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $624K in 2024, the largest being $346K to Nikkei Seniors Health CARE and Housing Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Founded in 2002 nikkei place foundation has a mandate to build a strong and vibrant community by raising funds to support programs and activities taking place at nikkei place. The foundation receives donations and manages the fund and/or property for the purpose of exclusively disbursing funds and property to the nikkei national museum and cultural centre ('nnmcc') and the nikkei seniors health care and housing society ('nshchs') which are both 'qualified donees'.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $768K | $873K | — | $198K | $624K | $5.3M |
| 2023 | $2M | $544K | — | $198K | $297K | $4.9M |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $605K | — | $121K | $454K | $3.6M |
| 2021 | $895K | $385K | — | $155K | $191K | $2.7M |
| 2020 | $913K | $359K | — | $121K | $208K | $1.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $624K to 2 qualified donees:
Received $175K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$170K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ruth Coles (director); Fred Yada (treasurer); Brian Tsuji (president); Donald Campbell (director); Herbert Ono (director); Ian Burgess (director); Paul Kariya (director); Ron Kruschen (director); Hiroshi Yamamoto (director); Yuki Kurozumi (director); Ryan Lang (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nikkei Place Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 866135056RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.