The Sarah McLachlan Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 867883142RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,020,791) as filed with the CRA.
The Sarah McLachlan Foundation is a private foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $4.5M in revenue and $2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 62% from donations, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $842K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $1.3M in 2024, the largest being $1.3M to Sarah McLachlan School of Music Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.2M in 2020 to $4.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The sarah mclachlan foundation is a volunteer-based organization that primarily supports a registered canadian charity known as the sarah mclachlan school of music society that provides free music education to at-risk youth.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.5M | $2M | — | $516K | $1.3M | $10.1M |
| 2023 | $5.3M | $2.2M | — | $86K | $1.6M | $7.6M |
| 2022 | $407K | $738K | — | $29K | $452K | $4.8M |
| 2021 | $74K | $35K | — | — | $2,500 | $5.1M |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $387K | — | $327K | — | $4.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.3M to 2 qualified donees:
Received $842K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$54K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sarah McLachlan (president); Kenna Danyliw (secretary treasurer); Douglas Goss (director); Jane Muckle (director); Ashif Mawji (director); Robert Jeffrey Latimer (director); Joyce Ip (director); Sue Bauman (chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Sarah McLachlan Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 867883142RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.