Rare Trait Hope Society
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 711506071RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($341,649) as filed with the CRA.
Rare Trait Hope Society is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $290K in revenue and $342K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $33K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 77% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $234K in 2024, the largest being $120K to University of South Florida Board of Trustees. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
1. Maintained a fund for purposes of facilitating a clinical trial to cure agu 2. Maintained a website to increase awareness about agu and to share information and research on agu
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $290K | $342K | $1,009 | $89K | $234K | $62K |
| 2023 | $186K | $508K | $3,985 | $67K | $427K | $112K |
| 2022 | $170K | $12K | — | $2,629 | — | $434K |
| 2021 | $292K | $16K | $6,805 | $4,190 | — | $276K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $234K to 2 qualified donees:
- University of South Florida Board of Trustees$120K
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dalls TH$114K
Received $33K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Barbara Insley (director president); Judy Rudin (director); Marie-Noelle Savoie (director); Svetlana Iakusheva; Colin Ross (director); Wade Cox (director); Peter Law (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Rare Trait Hope Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 711506071RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.