Richmond Community Foundation
Public foundation · Richmond, British Columbia · BN 897837258RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,142,683) as filed with the CRA.
Richmond Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Richmond, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.2M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 40% from other charities. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $922K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 75% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 43 qualified donees totalling $969K in 2024, the largest being $100K to Aspire Richmond Support Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $868K in 2020 to $2.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Soliciting and managing endowment funds and charitable donations to fund charitable programs and for distribution to registered charities and scholarship recipients in Richmond BC.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.2M | $1.1M | $37K | $16K | $1M | $7.1M |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $827K | $42K | $19K | $712K | $6.1M |
| 2022 | -$415K | $241K | $18K | $7,932 | $186K | $5.5M |
| 2021 | $969K | $191K | — | — | $139K | $6.2M |
| 2020 | $868K | $786K | $31K | $13K | $710K | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $969K to 43 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Aspire Richmond Support Society$100K
- Richmond Family Place Society$85K
- Chimo Community Services Society$84K
- Turning Point Recovery Society$76K
- The Sharing Farm Society$70K
- Richmond Women's Resource Centre Association$53K
- Touchstone Family Association$53K
- Pathways Clubhouse Society of Richmond$52K
- Richmond Multicultural Community Services Society$49K
- Richmond Cares Richmond Gives Society$43K
- Richmond Food Bank Society$43K
- Richmond Addiction Services Society$33K
- Richmond Baptist Church$32K
- Peace Mennonite Church$25K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 38 (Richmond)$23K
- Richmond Poverty Reduction Coalition$20K
- The Richmond Community Orchestra and Chorus Association$18K
- The Heart of Richmond AIDS Society$9,000
- Refuge Church Richmond$9,000
- Beth Tikvah Congregation and Centre Association$8,500
- Richmond Presbyterian Church$8,000
- Chabad of Richmond$7,500
- Richmond Music School Society$7,260
- Rosewood Manor CARE Foundation$5,661
- Zajac Ranch Society$5,300
Received $922K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Maryam Bawa (director & vice-chair); Dean Cardno (director & treasurer); Sin Lok Sunny Chiu (chair); Derek Dang (director); Kenneth Johnston (director); Wendy Yuan (director); Emmett Mark (director); Imelda Nurwisah (director & secretary); Judith Hutson (director); Allan Liu (director); Wesley Lui (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Richmond Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 897837258RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.