The Illahie Foundation
Private foundation · Fanny Bay, British Columbia · BN 891805574RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($292,248) as filed with the CRA.
The Illahie Foundation is a private foundation based in Fanny Bay, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $868K in revenue and $292K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 56% 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 39% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 33 qualified donees totalling $236K in 2024, the largest being $37K to Makeway Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Gifts to support initiatives that effect meaningful sustained social change by altering structural or systemic factors at the heart of such problems as poverty spousal and family violence housing substance abuse and environment degradation.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $868K | $292K | — | — | $236K | $5.7M |
| 2023 | $432K | $232K | — | — | $182K | $5.2M |
| 2022 | $440K | $213K | — | — | $165K | $5M |
| 2021 | $2.3M | $433K | — | — | $358K | $4.7M |
| 2020 | $704K | $402K | — | — | $360K | $2.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $236K to 33 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Makeway Foundation$37K
- Pacific Region International Summer Music Association$35K
- Powell River Miklat Recovery House Society$25K
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research$25K
- Tla'amin Nation (namesake)$20K
- Salt Spring Institute for Sustainability Education & Action$20K
- Cortes Island Community Foundation$10K
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives / Centre Canadien de Politiques Alternatives$10K
- Ecojustice Canada Society$8,000
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$6,000
- Chief Joe Mathias British Columbia Aboriginal Scholarship Fund$6,000
- World Outreach Communications Society$3,000
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$3,000
- Ecotrust Canada$3,000
- Sunshine Coast Community Services Society$2,000
- Pivot Legal Society$2,000
- Kamloops Food Bank Society$2,000
- Comox Valley Food Bank Society$2,000
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation$2,000
- British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation$2,000
- BC Women's Health Foundation$2,000
- B.W.S.S.: Battered Women's Support Services Association$2,000
- YWCA British Columbia$1,000
- Simon Fraser University$1,000
- Neil Squire Society$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Benjamin Levy (director); Deborah Levy (secretary); Edwin Levy (president); Paul Schwalb (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Illahie Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891805574RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.