Rick Hansen Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Richmond, British Columbia · BN 107659427RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($14,071,006) as filed with the CRA.
Rick Hansen Foundation is a charitable organization based in Richmond, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $14.3M in revenue and $14.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 62% from government, 20% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 30 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.1M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 69 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 12 qualified donees totalling $1.4M in 2024, the largest being $969K to The University of British Columbia. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The Rick Hansen Foundation (RHF) is dedicated to removing barriers to inclusion so that people with disabilities are thriving in an accessible inclusive and healthy world. For over thirty five years the Foundation has facilitated collaboration forged partnerships and generated social innovations. We continue to develop programs and initiatives that raise awareness change attitudes and remove barriers in the places we live work learn and play for people with disabilities. We also fund innovative spinal cord injury related research through partnerships with organizations such as the Intern…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $14.3M | $14.1M | $10.3M | $774K | $1.4M | $9.4M |
| 2023 | $12M | $11.3M | $7.5M | $746K | $1.5M | $10.6M |
| 2022 | $11.1M | $9.7M | $6.3M | $562K | $1.7M | $10.2M |
| 2021 | $13.1M | $10.3M | $5.5M | $591K | $3.1M | $8.4M |
| 2020 | $10.1M | $10.8M | $6.1M | $584K | $2.8M | $6.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.4M to 12 qualified donees:
- The University of British Columbia$969K
- City of Coquitlam$74K
- City of Kelowna$74K
- City of Prince George$74K
- Resort Municipality of Whistler$74K
- City of Nanaimo$60K
- City of Port Moody$36K
- Stony Brook Foundation$28K
- Cariboo Foundation Society$20K
- City of Kamloops$7,927
- Fraser River Sturgeon Conservation Society$2,000
- Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports$1,233
Received $2.1M from 30 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1.1M
- RBC Foundation$250K
- Aqueduct Foundation$250K
- April 1 Foundation$105K
- Gordon & Ruth Gooder Charitable Foundation$100K
- Vancouver Canucks Alumni Foundation$53K
- The Annual Foundation$50K
- Global Freedom Foundation$39K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$31K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$25K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$21K
- The John Volken Foundation$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$15K
- BenefAction Foundation$11K
- Chisholm Thomson Family Foundation$10K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$5,041
- Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation$5,000
- The Victoria Foundation$2,500
- The Hamber Foundation$2,000
- Vancouver Foundation$1,895
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,083
- The Dayhu Family Foundation$1,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$450
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$285
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9993 positions
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions69
- Total compensation, all staff$7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Colleen Nelson (director); Amanda Hansen (director); Suki Sekhon (director); Tamara Vrooman (chair); Stanis Smith (secretary); Annette Aquin (treasurer); Lisa Coltart (director); Rod Graham (director); Ryan Peterson (director); Rich Donovan (director); Hugh O'Reilly (director); Jane Halford (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Rick Hansen Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107659427RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.