Surreycares Community Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Surrey, British Columbia · BN 892378043RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,122,266) as filed with the CRA.
Surreycares Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Surrey, 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 $4.2M in revenue and $3.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 64% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.6M.
Compared with 47 grantmaking institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 65% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 38 qualified donees totalling $2M in 2024, the largest being $350K to Surrey Women's Centre Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $978K in 2020 to $4.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
SurreyCares Community Foundation receives and maintains endowments and makes grants to Qualified Donees (based on merit and availability of funds) in the local coummunity from the income earned on the endownments.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.2M | $3.1M | $11K | — | $2.8M | $10.2M |
| 2023 | $3.4M | $2.8M | $1.2M | — | $1.5M | $9.1M |
| 2022 | -$670K | $711K | $361K | — | $271K | $8.4M |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $806K | $81K | — | $457K | $18K |
| 2020 | $978K | $406K | $229K | — | $50K | $9.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2M to 38 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Surrey Women's Centre Society$350K
- Surrey Public Library$227K
- Mackie's Place Youth Social House Society$200K
- Nisa Foundation$194K
- Surrey Fire Fighters' Nutritional Snack Program Society$100K
- Food Bank on Wheels Society$90K
- BeaYoutiful Foundation$75K
- Lower Mainland Down Syndrome Society$75K
- Kurdish Canadian Society$70K
- Storehouse Community Hub Society$68K
- Friends of the Surrey Museum and Archives$63K
- City Dream Centre Society$63K
- Transformation Christian Centre$55K
- Stigma-Free Mental Health Society$50K
- Pacific Immigrant Resources Society$45K
- Dress for Success Vancouver Society$45K
- Surrey-North Delta Meals on Wheels$40K
- Kingdom Acts Foundation$40K
- Moving Forward Family Services Society$30K
- Muslim Community Care Foundation$29K
- Stalew Arts and Cultural Society$20K
- Sher Vancouver LGBTQ Friends Society$20K
- Rotary Club of Surrey Foundation$10K
- Best Buddies of Canada$10K
- Sums Place Society$9,244
Received $2.6M from 7 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$155K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Levy (chair); Rupinder Chhina (vice chair); Sonia Parmar (treasurer); Nav Chima (director); Akshdeep Gill (director); Arjun Hair (director); John Lawson (past chair); Debbie MacDougall (director); Henshaw Coral (director); Graziano Marlyn (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Surreycares Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892378043RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.