The Spinoza Foundation
Charitable organization · Kelowna, British Columbia · BN 736587007RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($216) as filed with the CRA.
The Spinoza Foundation is a charitable organization based in Kelowna, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2,100 in revenue and $216 in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 95% from other charities. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $2,000.
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 80% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
In its own words
(1) During this fiscal period the Executive Director (serves on a volunteer basis) of The Spinoza Foundation spent three months in Uganda overseeing the monitoring of the organization's programs in Uganda. This included visiting homes of 15 children and youth living with HIV who had received a goat from The Spinoza Foundation in the past (program beneficiaries). The goal of this visit was to understand the progress made by these families which have received a female goat from The Spinoza Foundation for goat farming in the last three years. We learnt that their goats had increased from one to …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2024–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2,100 | $216 | $216 | — | $0 | $3,519 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2,000 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Spinoza Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 736587007RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.