North Family Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 891048795RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($5,995,824) as filed with the CRA.
North Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $24.5M in revenue and $6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 92% from donations.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 95% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 32 qualified donees totalling $6M in 2024, the largest being $1M to Coast Conservation Endowment Fund Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.4M in 2020 to $24.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The foundation provides donations and grants to qualified donees. In 2024 the foundation continued to support charities involved in education conservation health social services and energy initiatives.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $24.5M | $6M | — | — | $6M | $52.1M |
| 2023 | $4.3M | $4.6M | — | — | $4.6M | $26.9M |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $4.1M | — | — | $4.1M | $30.3M |
| 2021 | $4.7M | $4.7M | — | — | $4.7M | $38.7M |
| 2020 | $2.4M | $3.9M | — | — | $3.8M | $38.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $6M to 32 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Coast Conservation Endowment Fund Foundation$1M
- Simon Fraser University$550K
- Small Change Fund$500K
- Clean Economy Fund$410K
- Makeway Charitable Society$335K
- Wanuskewin Heritage Park Authority$250K
- United Way British Columbia$250K
- Salal Foundation$250K
- Sierra Club of British Columbia Foundation$225K
- Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development$200K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$170K
- Environment Funders Canada$160K
- Mvzeif$150K
- Salt Spring Institute for Sustainability Education & Action$150K
- YWCA British Columbia$150K
- A New Way Forward Society$150K
- Pacific Salmon Foundation/fondation du Saumon du Pacifique$150K
- Canucks Autism Network Society$100K
- Institute for New Economics Public Interest Research Association Inc.$90K
- The University of British Columbia$90K
- BC Spaces for Nature Society$80K
- Vancity Community Foundation$75K
- University of Victoria$75K
- Power to Be Adventure Therapy Society$75K
- Pivot Legal Society$75K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$6,505
Schedule 3 of its 2021 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rudolph North (director); Patricia North (director); Caroline North (director); Rory North (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from North Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891048795RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.