The Cedrus Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 796016335RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($130,000) as filed with the CRA.
The Cedrus 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 $209K in revenue and $130K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 58% 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 92% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $130K in 2024, the largest being $30K to Canadian Unicef Committee. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $454K in 2020 to $209K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
The foundation was formed in 2019 and it provides funding for qualified donees with charitable purposes generally and facilitating charitable purposes in the field of education religion health relief of poverty amateur athletics and social and community welfare including arts animal rights protection and advocacy human right protection emerging relief social equality spirituality and environment protection. The foundation does not have employees at this point in time. In 2024. The foundation provided funding to charitable associations such as the ywca of metro vancouver multilingua…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $209K | $130K | — | — | $130K | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $277K | $157K | — | — | $153K | $1.7M |
| 2022 | $463K | $83K | — | — | $83K | $1.5M |
| 2021 | $454K | $80K | — | — | $80K | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $454K | $35K | — | — | $35K | $795K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $130K to 7 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lauren Gehlen (trustee); James Houssian (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Cedrus Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 796016335RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.