Pacific Parkinson's Research Institute - Vancouver Canada Society
Public foundation · North Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 891567349RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,632,377) as filed with the CRA.
Pacific Parkinson's Research Institute - Vancouver Canada Society is a public foundation based in North Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.9M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 44% from donations, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 81% of that peer group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $900K in 2020 to $2.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 19 names.
In its own words
The pacific parkinson's research institute is the fundraising partner of the pacific parkinsons' research centre and integral part of the djavad mowafaghian centre for brain health at ubc. We enable donors to contribute to leading edge clinical research that uses imaging and genetics to discover the causes and progression of parkinson's while developing 'novel' treatments for parkinson's disease. Our ultimate goal is to help find a cure.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.9M | $1.6M | $1.4M | $46K | — | $11.2M |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.8M | $1.1M | $33K | $450K | $9.9M |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $1.6M | $1.4M | $47K | — | $10.3M |
| 2021 | $2.8M | $385K | $189K | $23K | — | $9.3M |
| 2020 | $900K | $1.2M | $46K | $21K | $828K | $6.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1M from 26 charities:
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$501K
- Vancouver Foundation$211K
- Canadahelps Canadon$80K
- Canadahelps Canadon$80K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$26K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$26K
- The Wolrige Foundation$25K
- Zalkow Foundation$15K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$14K
- Aqueduct Foundation$13K
- Charles & Julie Bentall Family Foundation$10K
- Raven Foundation$5,000
- The Calgary Foundation$5,000
- The Christopher Foundation$2,500
- United Way British Columbia$1,930
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,610
- ZLC Foundation$1,500
- BenefAction Foundation$1,250
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,000
- The Dawson Family Sharing Foundation$1,000
- The Chaim Zbar Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$732
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$554
- The Sharing Foundation$250
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$178
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Don Anderson (chair); Marian Macfarlane; Catherine Andersz; Barry McBride (research committee chair); Lynn Beattie; Jon McKinney; Jim Crooks; Bjorn Moller; Craig Diamond; John Norton; Martin Gagel; Rod Scheuerman (past chair); Elizabeth Campbell Holroyd; Roger Scott-Douglas; Scott Holroyd (treasurer); Anne Wolrige (past chair); Michael Keegan (investment committee chair); Gordon Love (secretary); Kathryn Pearson (director of administration).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Pacific Parkinson's Research Institute - Vancouver Canada Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891567349RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.