Raffi Foundation for Child Honouring
Charitable organization · Salt Springs Island, British Columbia · BN 819296690RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,038,600) as filed with the CRA.
Raffi Foundation for Child Honouring is a charitable organization based in Salt Springs Island, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $591K in revenue and $1M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 53% from donations, 42% from other charities. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $6,828.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 28% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 14 qualified donees totalling $502K in 2024, the largest being $150K to Small Change Fund. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $925K in 2020 to $591K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Online course in child honouring Supplementary materials from online course Develop training to course participants to lead classes in child honouring
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $591K | $1M | — | — | $718K | $699K |
| 2023 | $756K | $557K | — | — | $232K | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $956K | — | — | $701K | $948K |
| 2021 | $246K | $1.2M | — | — | $421K | $312K |
| 2020 | $925K | $238K | — | — | — | — |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $502K to 14 qualified donees:
- Small Change Fund$150K
- Family Services of Greater Vancouver$101K
- Observer Publications Inc.$50K
- Positive Discipline in Everyday Life$50K
- Salal Foundation$50K
- The Circle Salt Spring Education Society$20K
- Epic Learning Society$16K
- Salt Spring Island Public Library Association$15K
- Birthing Families Foundation$15K
- Kings Park Day CARE Centre Inc.$10K
- Salt Spring Institute for Sustainability Education & Action$10K
- Salt Spring Preschool Society$8,500
- Salt Spring and Southern Gulf Islands Community Services Society$5,000
- New Learning Society$2,000
Received $6,828 from 1 charity:
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,828
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$165K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bert Simpson (director); Raffi Cavoukian (director); Sonia Furstenau (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Raffi Foundation for Child Honouring’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 819296690RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.