Senft Family Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 786796482RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,746,036) as filed with the CRA.
Senft Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $624K in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 78% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 66% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 17 qualified donees totalling $1.6M in 2024, the largest being $1M to VGH & Ubc Hospital Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $41K in 2020 to $624K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
We support registered charities and qualified donees by making monetary grants toward programs in the following key categories: healthcare education thought leadership youth and local arts culture & community.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $624K | $1.7M | — | — | $1.7M | $4M |
| 2023 | $5.2M | $1.9M | — | — | $1.4M | $5.1M |
| 2022 | $54K | $449K | — | — | $443K | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $1M | $469K | — | — | $463K | $2.2M |
| 2020 | $41K | $959K | — | — | $955K | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.6M to 17 qualified donees:
- VGH & Ubc Hospital Foundation$1M
- BC Cancer Foundation$271K
- Collingwood School Foundation$100K
- Makeway Charitable Society$61K
- Lions Gate Hospital Foundation$35K
- The Winnipeg Art Gallery$33K
- York House School Society$25K
- Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation$25K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$25K
- Junior Achievement of British Columbia$15K
- Looking Glass Foundation for Eating Disorders$10K
- Little Warriors$10K
- Lake of the Woods District Hospital Foundation$10K
- Balmoral Hall School Foundation Inc.$10K
- Community First Foundation$5,000
- Canada Charity Partners$1,000
- The Children's Family House Society of B.C.$916
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Helena Jean Riley Senft (director); Charles Warren Cosman (director); Sarah Louise Senft (director); Patricia Arruda Senft (director); Roderick Raymond Senft (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Senft Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 786796482RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.