Thompson Rivers University Foundation
Public foundation · Kamloops, British Columbia · BN 131135691RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,924,785) as filed with the CRA.
Thompson Rivers University Foundation is a public foundation based in Kamloops, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.2M in revenue and $4.9M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from donations, 10% from other charities. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $812K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $4.6M in 2024, the largest being $4.6M to Thompson Rivers University. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $6.3M in 2020 to $4.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
We raise and manage funds to provide scholarships and special needs funding to students of thompson rivers university. Manage fund-raising programs for the advancement and enhancement of post-secondary education primarily at thompson rivers university.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.2M | $4.9M | — | $247K | $4.6M | $38.2M |
| 2023 | $4.5M | $4.5M | — | $75K | $4.4M | $34.5M |
| 2022 | $6.4M | $3.7M | $1.9M | $98K | $1.7M | $35M |
| 2021 | $8.4M | $3.8M | $1.7M | $108K | $2M | $34M |
| 2020 | $6.3M | $4.3M | $1.7M | $210K | $2.3M | $24.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4.6M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $812K from 28 charities:
- Arh Healthcare Foundation$375K
- RBC Foundation$100K
- Actua$73K
- TB Vets Charitable Foundation$39K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$38K
- Vancouver Foundation$33K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$30K
- The London Drugs Foundation$25K
- The Sprott Foundation$15K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$12K
- Lohn Foundation$10K
- Chartered Professional Accountants' Education Foundation of British Columbia$9,500
- The Victoria Foundation$7,500
- Evening Auxiliary to the Royal Inland Hospital$7,500
- The Calgary Foundation$7,000
- The Sprott Foundation$5,000
- Royal Inland Hospital Foundation$4,202
- The Ed Coates Memorial Foundation$4,000
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$3,800
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,775
- Central Okanagan Foundation$2,500
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$2,500
- Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation$2,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,768
- Shuswap Community Foundation$1,539
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mackenzie Kanigan (president); Tracy Christianson (bog appointee); Lori Ottem (director); Maureen McCurdy (vice president); Jack Miller (director); Manju Singh (director); Tom Hoffman (director); Greg Bay (director); Moringstar Peters (director); Ayla Salyn (director); Jeffrey Phillips (director); Cindy Ozouf (bog appointee); Kim Cassar Torreggiani (director); Diana Major (director non-voting).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Thompson Rivers University Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131135691RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.