Social Diversity for Children Foundation
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 806518437RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-02-28. Split of total expenditures ($342,687) as filed with the CRA.
Social Diversity for Children Foundation is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending February 28, 2024, it reported $353K in revenue and $343K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations, 19% from government, 62% from other charities. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $211K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $174K in 2020 to $353K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
• building bridges with music (bbm) is a music program allowing children with and without disabilities to communicate and play through music instruments and song. • for children who are easily overstimulated by sound and movement sdc offers education through creativity (etc). • the mpm/jelic program is a math logic class designed for children with special needs. • education through virtual reality (etvr) is a program offered by sdc and richmond centre for disability that allows students of all abilities to explore the world with virtual reality headsets. • drama for diversity (dfd) pr…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $353K | $343K | $339K | $0 | $0 | $40K |
| 2023 | $503K | $520K | $506K | $3,445 | $0 | $29K |
| 2022 | $336K | $333K | $324K | — | — | $47K |
| 2021 | $200K | $222K | $206K | $5,028 | — | $44K |
| 2020 | $174K | $121K | $37K | $66K | — | $65K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $211K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$196K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Wen Yu Chen (director); Rosa Lenihan (director); Evelyn Chang (director); Jacky Chan (director); Lee-Yen Mao (director); Audrey Dong (director); Judith Buist (director); Troy Abromaitis (director); Ting Wei Chang (director); Ben Yao (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Social Diversity for Children Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 806518437RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.