Rethink Charity Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 793187881RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,697,986) as filed with the CRA.
Rethink Charity Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.8M in revenue and $4.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 85% from donations, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $456K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $3.8M in 2024, the largest being $1.9M to Charities Aid Foundation Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $807K in 2020 to $4.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Regranting donations through the rc forward program
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.8M | $4.7M | $164K | — | $4.3M | $238K |
| 2023 | $223K | $2.7M | $2.3M | — | — | $180K |
| 2022 | $4.6M | $5.5M | $82K | — | $5.4M | $2.6M |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.4M | $35K | — | $1.3M | $296K |
| 2020 | $807K | $654K | $207K | — | $386K | $335K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.8M to 4 qualified donees:
Received $456K from 14 charities:
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$267K
- Aqueduct Foundation$105K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$51K
- Ewald Family Foundation$10K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$5,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$4,860
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,596
- Fondation Desjardins$3,283
- BenefAction Foundation$2,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,510
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,243
- Abundance Canada$700
- Clark Cawthra Coneybeare Foundation$500
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$240
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$127K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Thomas Ryab Barnett (president); Baxter Denton Bullock (treasurer); Siobhan Brenton (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Rethink Charity Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 793187881RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.