The Hieros Foundation
Private foundation · West Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 828683698RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($305,473) as filed with the CRA.
The Hieros Foundation is a private foundation based in West Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $305K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% 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 46% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 12 qualified donees totalling $260K in 2024, the largest being $75K to First United Church Community Ministry Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $648K in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
No charitable programs are carried on directly by the hieros foundation. The hieros foundation makes gifts to qualified donees whose programs are targeted at providing relief to poor communities in the vancouver downtown east side as well as poor communities in africa and india.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $305K | — | — | $260K | $6.1M |
| 2023 | $143K | $294K | — | — | $260K | $5.4M |
| 2022 | -$181K | $217K | — | — | $182K | $5.3M |
| 2021 | $838K | $297K | — | — | $151K | $5.7M |
| 2020 | $648K | $211K | — | — | $154K | $5.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $260K to 12 qualified donees:
- First United Church Community Ministry Society$75K
- YWCA British Columbia$68K
- Covenant House Vancouver$43K
- The Arts Club of Vancouver Theatre Society$30K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$10K
- Union Gospel Mission$10K
- The Mel JR. & Marty Zajac Foundation$5,000
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$5,000
- Pal Vancouver$5,000
- Vancouver Foundation$4,000
- The Downtown Eastside Women's Centre Association$3,000
- Videa a BC-Based International Development Education Association$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Douglas Whitehead (director); Wanda Costuros (director); Ashley Whitehead (director); Quinlan Henshaw (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Hieros Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 828683698RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.