The Vancouver Chinatown Lions Medical and Scholarship Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 118975275RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($7,157) as filed with the CRA.
The Vancouver Chinatown Lions Medical and Scholarship Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $8,975 in revenue and $7,157 in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 56% from donations.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 64% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $8,000 in 2023, the largest being $3,000 to Lions of Canada Fund for LCIF. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3,557 in 2020 to $8,975 in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
We raised funds in prior years for medical research. We later added scholarship and athletic promotion in our ojective. We were inactive during the year and do not have ongoing fundraising programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8,975 | $7,157 | — | — | $7,000 | $239K |
| 2023 | $759 | $8,000 | — | — | $8,000 | $237K |
| 2022 | $1,107 | $9,390 | — | — | $9,000 | $244K |
| 2021 | $4,806 | $10K | — | — | $9,500 | $252K |
| 2020 | $3,557 | $9,361 | — | — | $8,000 | $258K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Granted $8,000 to 4 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Syrus Lee (secretary); James Ho (director); Francis Chan (director); Tennyson Choo (treasurer); Hebron Shyng (director); David Yip (director); Edmond To (director); David Tam (director); Vincent Yue (past president); Lawrence Tam (director); Alfred Woo (director); David Mao (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Vancouver Chinatown Lions Medical and Scholarship Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118975275RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.