Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko
Public foundation · Winnipeg, Manitoba · BN 119273472RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,859,131) as filed with the CRA.
Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko is a public foundation based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $7.4M in revenue and $2.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 36% from donations. In 2024, 25 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $265K.
Compared with 296 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 38% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 61 qualified donees totalling $729K in 2024, the largest being $182K to Ukrainian World Congress Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $986K in 2020 to $7.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The shevchenko foundation's vision statement is to 'be a premier not-for-profit foundation inspiring community development is a canada that acknowledges ukrainian canadians as nation-builders and a fundamental component of canadian society'. Accordingly it allocates grants bi-annually for the preservation promotion and development of ukrainian canadian cultural heritage in four identified programs - arts community development heritage and education. In response to an identified need to increase its capital in order to meet the growing demands for grant funding the shevchenko foundati…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.4M | $2.9M | $605K | $396K | $1.6M | $37.8M |
| 2023 | $1M | $2.4M | $317K | $540K | $1.2M | $33.3M |
| 2022 | $5.6M | $3.1M | $1.3M | $629K | $990K | $34.7M |
| 2021 | $8.9M | $2.1M | $329K | $948K | $598K | $32.2M |
| 2020 | $986K | $2.7M | $988K | $630K | $625K | $25.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $729K to 61 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Ukrainian World Congress Foundation$182K
- Ukraninian Canadian Congress Charitable and Educational Trust$105K
- Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation$103K
- Ukrainian Museum of Canada of the Ukrainian Women's Association of Canada$21K
- Oseredok Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centre Inc.$20K
- Ukrainian Foundation for College Education Trust$18K
- Stratford Shakespearean Fesital of Canada$15K
- Ukrainian War Veterans Association of Canada$13K
- Shevchenko Scientific Society of Canada$12K
- The Canadian-Polish Foundation for Environmental Protection and Development in Rural Areas.$12K
- Canada-Ukraine Foundation$11K
- Toronto Ukrainian Foundation$11K
- Punctuate! Theatre Society$10K
- Canadian Ukrainian Opera Association$10K
- Vegreville Cultural Association$8,000
- Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts$7,890
- HUMANITE Foundation Canada$7,500
- Ukrainian Shumka Dancers$7,500
- Orchestre Classique de Montréal$7,500
- True North Youth Foundation Inc.$7,400
- ST. Basil's Ukrainian Catholic Parish$7,000
- Ukrainian Museum of Canada of the Ukrainian Women's Association of Canada Ontario Branch$6,750
- Ukrainian Catholic Parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary$6,750
- Arts On the Ave Edmonton Society$6,000
- Vesnivka Choir$6,000
Received $265K from 25 charities:
- Temerty Foundation$73K
- Myhal Family Foundation$40K
- Brookfield Partners Foundation$25K
- St. John's Legacy Foundation$20K
- BenefAction Foundation$19K
- The Huculak Foundation$15K
- Pollock Family Foundation/Fondation de la famille pollock$10K
- Zorianna and Eugene Hyworon Foundation Inc.$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- The Homenko Fund Inc.$10K
- The Scott Griffin Foundation$10K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$9,745
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,925
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,484
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,355
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,063
- ST. Mary the Protectress Ukrainian Orthodox Millennium Villa Inc.$1,500
- Bcu Foundation$1,250
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$530
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$500
- ST. Volodymyr Cultural Centre (oakville) Inc.$250
- Yalenka Ukrainian Cultural Society$200
- ST. Volodymyr Cultural Centre (oakville) Inc.$100
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$64
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$30
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$271K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Adrian Boyko (director); Scott Armstrong (secretary-treasurer); Lidia Narozniak (second vice-president); Oryssia Lennie (first vice-president); Boris Balan (president); Bohdana Bashuk (executive director); Roma Dubczak (director); Lindy Ledohowski (director); Halyna Perun (director); Roman Soltykevych (director); Christine Zwozdesky (director); Alexis Kochan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119273472RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.