The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation Learning Centres for B.C.
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 829014869RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($110,899) as filed with the CRA.
The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation Learning Centres for B.C. is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $148K in revenue and $111K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 37% from other charities. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $120K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 10% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The operation of the centre is to deliver remedial tutoring to children who have a learning disability formally identified as dyslexia. The remedial tutoring is delivered at no cost to the family of the child accepted into the program by volunteers.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $148K | $111K | $60K | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $264K | $100K | $83K | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $177K | $115K | $63K | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $160K | $134K | $76K | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $118K | $103K | $63K | — | — | $810K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $120K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Ward (president); John Barr (vice-president); Robert Parent (secretary); John Teleske (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation Learning Centres for B.C.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 829014869RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.