ST. Thomas More Collegiate Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Burnaby, British Columbia · BN 883614406RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($805,376) as filed with the CRA.
ST. Thomas More Collegiate Foundation is a public foundation based in Burnaby, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $817K in revenue and $805K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $223K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 66% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $741K in 2024, the largest being $741K to ST. Thomas More Collegiate LTD.. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The foundation receives gifts bequests trust funds and/or property for the purpose of disbursing or loaning funds to st. Thomas more collegiate ltd. A registered charity operating a catholic independent school. The foundation has a regular program of soliciting donations through various fundraising activities mainly involving volunteers of the foundation.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $817K | $805K | — | — | $741K | $10.3M |
| 2023 | $715K | $838K | — | — | $805K | $10.3M |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $884K | — | — | $853K | $10.4M |
| 2021 | $1M | $947K | — | — | $922K | $10.1M |
| 2020 | $690K | $761K | — | $9,595 | $728K | $10M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $741K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $223K from 13 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$90K
- Canadahelps Canadon$90K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$18K
- ZLC Foundation$17K
- Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver$5,000
- ST. Thomas More Collegiate LTD.$1,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$766
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$666
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$449
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$327
- Boffo Foundation$259
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$60
- Surrey Fire Fighters Charitable Society—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ron Orser (director); Debra Padron (director); Mark Smigel (director); Denzel Languerta (chair); Thomas Spraggs (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from ST. Thomas More Collegiate Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 883614406RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.