Ouano Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 720893536RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($551,013) as filed with the CRA.
Ouano Foundation is a private foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $334K in revenue and $551K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $389.
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. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation's charitable program promotes excellence in the fields of human rights public journalism and digital media literacy with the overall mission of advancing digital human rights. The foundation is engaged in community outreach prioritizing people and communities disproportionately impacted by systematic racism and gender discrimination classism barriers to socioeconomic mobility and other ongoing forms of inequality discrimination and structural exclusion.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $334K | $551K | $514K | — | — | -$2,465 |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $923K | $54K | — | $215K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.3M | $760K | $200K | — | $98K |
| 2021 | $295K | $99K | — | — | — | $196K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $389 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$305K
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jennifer Ouano (director); Lara-May Honrado (director); Tiara Letourneau (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ouano Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 720893536RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.