Pena Family Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 842927741RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($93,084) as filed with the CRA.
Pena Family Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $701K in revenue and $93K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from donations.
Compared with 1,130 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $68K in 2024, the largest being $38K to Langara College. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $123K in 2020 to $701K in 2024.
In its own words
1) advances education by providing scholarships to bcit and langara students for use by the recipient students to further their post-secondary education 2) made a capital gift to ubc to establish a learning and events room for use by the faculty and students for workshops and like events. 3) gifts to the vancouver foundation to support projects related to english language learners (ell) youth at risk
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $701K | $93K | — | — | $68K | $2.5M |
| 2023 | $411K | $49K | — | — | $30K | $1.9M |
| 2022 | $115K | $64K | — | — | $46K | $1.5M |
| 2021 | $643K | $43K | — | — | $27K | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $123K | $50K | — | — | $36K | $864K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $68K to 7 qualified donees:
- Langara College$38K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver)$10K
- University of BC$9,000
- Emily Carr University of Art and Design Foundation$5,000
- Vancouver Community College Foundation$3,000
- British Columbia Institute of Technology Foundation$2,000
- Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Pena Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 842927741RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.