Tiny Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 781082409RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,076,002) as filed with the CRA.
Tiny Foundation is a private foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported -$1.1M in revenue and $2.1M in expenditures.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 4% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 19 qualified donees totalling $2.1M in 2024, the largest being $562K to Myriad Canada Foundation.
In its own words
The Tiny Foundation provides gifts to qualified donees. The Foundation supports a variety of causes with the primary areas of focus of social justice child protection journalism and medical research.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | -$1.1M | $2.1M | $332K | — | — | $3.6M |
| 2023 | $11.1M | $684K | — | — | $455K | $4.8M |
| 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.1M to 19 qualified donees:
- Myriad Canada Foundation$562K
- 3858278 Canada Foundation$325K
- Streetohome Foundation$250K
- University of California$223K
- University of Victoria$123K
- Journalists for Human Rights (JHR)$100K
- Imagine Canada$98K
- Leland Stanford Junior University$81K
- 1up Victoria Single Parent Resource Centre Society$75K
- University of Oregon$68K
- University of California$35K
- University of Utah$34K
- New York University$34K
- Glenlyon Norfolk School Society$25K
- Saanich Neighbourhood Place$18K
- Transforming Education Society$10K
- Forward Global Philanthropy Society$10K
- The Isaac Foundation$5,000
- Seabird Island Indian Band$1,293
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Tiny Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 781082409RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.