The Push for Change Foundation
Public foundation · Surrey, British Columbia · BN 863616017RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-15. Split of total expenditures ($43,407) as filed with the CRA.
The Push for Change Foundation is a public foundation based in Surrey, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 15, 2024, it reported $54K in revenue and $43K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 83% from donations, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $10K.
Compared with 2,855 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $18K in 2024, the largest being $6,000 to Give a Better Life Foundation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $316K in 2020 to $54K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Ongoing program & focus: The Promise Project Contest which includes curriculum developed by our partners at Raising the Roof and a comprehensive toolkit developed by The Push for Change and the Ontario Provincial Police. The Promise Project Contest is a stand-alone project whereby teams of youth pick an area of social injustice (they are passionate about) related to 'youth at risk' of homelessness in their school or community and implement a team project that proposes to solve this injustice. Teams then have a chance to submit their project to a panel of judges for a chance to win a monetary d…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $54K | $43K | — | — | $18K | $0 |
| 2023 | $85K | $53K | — | — | $9,348 | $0 |
| 2022 | $103K | $89K | $76K | — | $12K | $146K |
| 2021 | $150K | $135K | $135K | — | — | $131K |
| 2020 | $316K | $296K | $296K | — | — | $120K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $18K to 4 qualified donees:
- Give a Better Life Foundation$6,000
- Lift Church$5,000
- Salvation Army$4,600
- Salvation Army$2,472
Received $10K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Total compensation, all staff$38K
Schedule 3 of its 2021 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sean Richardson (director); Joseph Roberts (director); Marie Marcoux-Roberts (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Push for Change Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863616017RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.