Tula Foundation
Private foundation · Campbell River, British Columbia · BN 862732815RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($23,107,489) as filed with the CRA.
Tula Foundation is a private foundation based in Campbell River, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $12.6M in revenue and $23.1M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $10K.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 61% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 124 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $1.2M in 2024, the largest being $807K to The University of British Columbia. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $58M in 2020 to $12.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Tula foundation funds qualified donees chiefly universities who participate with tula foundation in tula's programs. Programs undertaken by the tula foundation include local initiatives in british columbia in health and social development community health and arts and culture. Tula's agent tula salud provides community health services in guatemala. Tula's programs include education and research conducted at hakai on calvert island and at quadra. The areas of research include archeology terrestrial ecology marine ecology atmosphere and earth sciences. The activities are often undertake…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $12.6M | $23.1M | $20M | — | $1.2M | $110M |
| 2023 | $101.6M | $21.8M | $18.7M | — | $1.7M | $120.5M |
| 2022 | $6.2M | $20.5M | $18.4M | — | $1.2M | $40.7M |
| 2021 | $5.7M | $19.6M | $16.9M | — | $1.9M | $55M |
| 2020 | $58M | $17.1M | $14.5M | — | $1.9M | $68.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.2M to 4 qualified donees:
Received $10K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions124
- Total compensation, all staff$11.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Eric Peterson (director); Christina Munck (director); Jill Kot (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Tula Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 862732815RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.