The 1988 Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 891469397RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($544,928) as filed with the CRA.
The 1988 Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $616K in revenue and $545K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from other charities. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $615K.
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 23 qualified donees totalling $540K in 2024, the largest being $60K to The Fraser Institute. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $207K in 2020 to $616K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Identification of and disbursements to qualified donees
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $616K | $545K | — | — | $540K | $72K |
| 2023 | $539K | $538K | — | — | $534K | $1,391 |
| 2022 | $188K | $698K | — | — | $696K | $458 |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $580K | — | — | $578K | $510K |
| 2020 | $207K | $819K | — | — | $818K | $22K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $540K to 23 qualified donees:
- The Fraser Institute$60K
- Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network$60K
- The Macdonald-Laurier Institute$50K
- Coast Mental Health Foundation$40K
- Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society for Education and Remembrance$30K
- Jewish Family Services Agency of Vancouver$30K
- Change the World Foundation$30K
- Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island$25K
- Rise Asset Development$25K
- Windmill Microlending$25K
- Global Civic Policy Society$25K
- Mission Possible Compassionate Ministries Society$20K
- Hope Action Values Ethics Culinary Training Society$20K
- Canadian Mental Health Association of Northern BC$20K
- Canadian Paraplegic Association (b.c.)$15K
- ST. John Society (british Columbia and Yukon)$10K
- Pathways Serious Mental Illness Society$10K
- Canadian Health and Fitness Institute$10K
- Alzheimer Society of B.C.$10K
- Children's Hearing and Speech Centre of BC Inc.$10K
- The University of British Columbia$5,000
- Simon Fraser University$5,000
- Delta Life Skills Society$5,000
Received $615K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Peter Arbuckle (director); Brian Hagerman (director); Patrick Julian (chair); Daryl Simpson (director); Laurel Fraser Mowatt (director); Cynthia Elm Ramsay (director); Ryan David Benn (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The 1988 Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891469397RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.