Quintessence Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 899411425RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($34,698) as filed with the CRA.
Quintessence 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 $160K in revenue and $35K in expenditures.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 68% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Organized the annual breastfeeding challenge supported health professional education developing a series of videos supported human milk banking published newsletter
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $160K | $35K | $31K | — | $1,000 | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $33K | $50K | $47K | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $152K | $31K | $28K | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $310K | $20K | $17K | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2020 | -$534K | $24K | $20K | — | — | $905K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Frances Jones (chair); Paul Worster (treasurer); Gillian Crabtree (secretary); Roberta Hewat; Stephanie Gillespie.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Quintessence Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 899411425RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.