The Lum Family Foundation
Private foundation · Richmond, British Columbia · BN 744373135RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($369,420) as filed with the CRA.
The Lum Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Richmond, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.1M in revenue and $369K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% 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 40% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 16 qualified donees totalling $306K in 2024, the largest being $105K to British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $3.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
To provide funding for qualified donees with charitable purposes generally and facilitating charitable purposes in the fields of education religion health relief of poverty amateur athletics support of animals and general social and community welfare including the arts
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.1M | $369K | — | — | $306K | $10.7M |
| 2023 | $2.8M | $162K | — | — | $125K | $7.9M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $144K | — | — | $109K | $4.9M |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $132K | — | — | $92K | $3.9M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $43K | — | — | $25K | $2.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $306K to 16 qualified donees:
- British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation$105K
- Vancouver Police Foundation$100K
- Richmond Hospital Foundation$50K
- Vancouver Police Foundation$10K
- Villa Cathay CARE Home Society$7,500
- The University of British Columbia$6,000
- Crofton House School$5,000
- CKNW Kids' Fund$5,000
- Click - Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids Society$5,000
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$3,000
- Food Banks British Columbia$2,500
- Union Gospel Mission$2,500
- Simon Fraser University$2,000
- Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau$1,000
- ST. George's School$1,000
- British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$250
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carman Chan (trustee); Chun Pang Lum (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Lum Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 744373135RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.