The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 866983356RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,709,615) as filed with the CRA.
The Connor Clark & Lunn 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 $2.1M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $50K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 129 qualified donees totalling $1.7M in 2024, the largest being $88K to The Vancouver Art Gallery Association. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $2.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The charitable work of the organization involves the allocating of funding to approximately 128 charitable organizations throughout canada.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.1M | $1.7M | — | — | $1.7M | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $2M | — | — | $1.8M | $712K |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.9M | — | — | $1.7M | $912K |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.3M | — | — | $1.1M | $954K |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $1.1M | — | — | $1M | $891K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.7M to 129 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Vancouver Art Gallery Association$88K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$63K
- Vancouver Symphony Society$50K
- First United Church Community Ministry Society$50K
- Chinese Canadian Museum Society of British Columbia$50K
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$47K
- Ronald S. Roadburg Foundation$45K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$42K
- Ronald McDonald House Alberta Society$42K
- Junior Achievement of British Columbia$33K
- The Lawson Foundation$29K
- ST. Michael's and Providence Foundation$29K
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation$29K
- Vancouver Foundation$29K
- Makigiaqta Inuit Training Corporation$26K
- Windmill Microlending$25K
- University Hospitals Kingston Foundation$25K
- Take a Hike Youth Mental Health Foundation$25K
- Future Generations Foundation$25K
- Loran Scholars Foundation$25K
- Help Us Help$25K
- Groupe Action Nouvelle Vie$25K
- Arts Umbrella Association$25K
- Aciac$25K
- Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation$22K
Received $50K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Colin Aubrey (director); Serge Depatie (director); John Flintoft (director); Morgan Gough (director); Jeffrey Guise (director); Lindsay Holtz (director); Kevin Leon (director); Elizabeth Ann Ross Onder (director); Lori Satov (director); Moira Turnbull-Fox (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 866983356RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.