The Walker Lynch Foundation
Private foundation · West Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119261998RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,415,928) as filed with the CRA.
The Walker Lynch Foundation is a private foundation based in West Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $713K in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 15 qualified donees totalling $2.4M in 2024, the largest being $518K to Huntsville District Memorial Hospital Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $106K in 2020 to $713K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Provide qualified donees with funds for qualified activities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $713K | $2.4M | — | — | $2.4M | $105K |
| 2023 | $73K | $680 | — | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2022 | $98K | $58K | — | — | $54K | $0 |
| 2021 | $95K | $65K | — | — | $54K | $0 |
| 2020 | $106K | $63K | — | — | $54K | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.4M to 15 qualified donees:
- Huntsville District Memorial Hospital Foundation$518K
- Lions Gate Hospital Foundation$403K
- Hospice Huntsville$259K
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$211K
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$201K
- Toronto East Health Network Foundation$155K
- World Vision Canada$150K
- CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada$104K
- Seva Canada Society$103K
- Union Gospel Mission$52K
- North Shore Rescue Team Society$52K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$52K
- Myriad Canada Foundation$52K
- Crohn's and Colitis Canada / Crohn et Colite Canada$52K
- Lifewater Canada$52K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Susan Lynch (treasurer); Scott Lynch (secretary); George Denier (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Walker Lynch Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119261998RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.