Sant Jalaram Charitable Foundation of North America
Publicly funded institution · Coquitlam, British Columbia · BN 872849492RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($41,381) as filed with the CRA.
Sant Jalaram Charitable Foundation of North America is a public foundation based in Coquitlam, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $72K in revenue and $41K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $72K.
Compared with 38 grantmaking institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 8 qualified donees totalling $30K in 2024, the largest being $5,000 to Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1,760 in 2020 to $72K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Provide education counselling and supportive services to refugees including language instruction; provided food clothing and basic amenities to the homeless; all the work undertaken is by volunteers; donated monies to qualified donees who carry out the the same activities of the foundation's main purpose - which is to relieve poverty by providing basic amenities including food and clothing.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $72K | $41K | $11K | — | $30K | $72K |
| 2023 | $73K | $36K | $5,921 | — | $30K | $41K |
| 2022 | $2,279 | $4,450 | — | — | $4,450 | $3,939 |
| 2021 | $2,869 | $6,000 | — | — | $6,000 | $6,110 |
| 2020 | $1,760 | $3,000 | — | — | $3,000 | $9,240 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $30K to 8 qualified donees:
- Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society$5,000
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$5,000
- Union Gospel Mission$5,000
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$5,000
- First United Church Community Ministry Society$5,000
- Habitat for Humanity Society of Greater Vancouver$2,000
- Burnaby Fire Fighters Charitable Society$2,000
- Indo-Africa Charitable Society$750
Received $72K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kandarp Patel (president); Pravin Shah (treasurer); Kaushika Pabari (director); Sneha Unadkat (director); Neha Unadkat (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sant Jalaram Charitable Foundation of North America’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 872849492RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.