The Chin-Wei Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 890731011RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,483,674) as filed with the CRA.
The Chin-Wei Foundation is a private foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending October 31, 2024, it reported $8.3M in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 55% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 50% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $2.1M in 2024, the largest being $2.1M to CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada). Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.5M in 2020 to $8.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Promoting the welfare and care of the poor or necessitous persons
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.3M | $2.5M | — | — | $2.1M | $52.1M |
| 2023 | $5.8M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.5M | $46.3M |
| 2022 | $3.3M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.5M | $42.3M |
| 2021 | $6.6M | $2.7M | — | — | $1.5M | $40.8M |
| 2020 | $4.5M | $1.3M | — | — | $1M | $37M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, October 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$4,600,000
- Investment income$1,500,438
- Other income$875,644
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.1M to 1 qualified donee:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Scott Yun-Wei Shaw (president and director); Theresa Shiao-Wen Shaw (director); Marion Man (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Chin-Wei Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890731011RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.