Seedlings Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119141547RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,922,938) as filed with the CRA.
Seedlings Foundation is a private foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $914K in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $15K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 83% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 46 qualified donees totalling $1.9M in 2024, the largest being $1M to British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $100K in 2020 to $914K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
We provide grants to local initiatives that focus on social programming the arts and environmental organizations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $914K | $1.9M | — | — | $1.9M | $514K |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $740K | — | — | $725K | $1.5M |
| 2022 | $156K | $505K | — | — | $492K | $214K |
| 2021 | $126K | $363K | — | — | $354K | $567K |
| 2020 | $100K | $320K | — | — | $313K | $804K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, May 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$913,983
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.9M to 46 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation$1M
- Lumara Grief and Bereavement CARE Society$35K
- Shelter Movers$30K
- Canuck Place Children's Hospice$30K
- Community First Foundation$30K
- YWCA British Columbia$25K
- YMCA BC$25K
- What If Foundation$25K
- Vancouver Food Runners Society$25K
- Union Gospel Mission$25K
- Ubc Development and Alumni Engagement$25K
- Association of Neighbourhood Houses of British Columbia$25K
- Pacifica Treatment Centre Society$25K
- The Nature Trust of British Columbia$25K
- Kinbrace Community Society$25K
- Plea Community Services Society of British Columbia$25K
- Take a Hike Youth Mental Health Foundation$25K
- Little Warriors$25K
- The Kidsafe Project Society$25K
- Hollyburn Community Services Society$25K
- Family Services of Greater Vancouver$25K
- DRS Earthwise Society$25K
- Burnaby Hospice Society$25K
- Aunt Leah's Independent Lifeskills Society$25K
- The Belonging Network Support for Families and Youth Association$25K
Received $15K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Cameron Burke (director); Claire Anne Wright (president); William Arthur Sauder (director); Jacqueline Leigh Robinson (director); Anna Wright (director); Oliva Rose Sauder Bull (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Seedlings Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119141547RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.