Urban Spirit Foundation
Charitable organization · West Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 827895368RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($117,445) as filed with the CRA.
Urban Spirit Foundation is a charitable organization based in West Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $160K in revenue and $117K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 46% from donations. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $28K.
Compared with 730 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 19% of peers.
It reported gifts to 8 qualified donees totalling $19K in 2024, the largest being $4,950 to Aboriginal Community Career Employment Services Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $106K in 2020 to $160K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
In accordance with usf's objectives: (1) continuation of career employment services through access's trades program. (2) continuation of poverty relief through access and vancouver aboriginal friendship centre. (3) continuation of scholarship program. (4) continuation of endowment development for long-term sustainability.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $160K | $117K | — | $21K | $72K | $331K |
| 2023 | $194K | $146K | — | $16K | $116K | $289K |
| 2022 | $118K | $94K | $210 | — | $66K | $505K |
| 2021 | $164K | $104K | — | — | $96K | $487K |
| 2020 | $106K | $39K | $16K | — | $14K | $428K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $19K to 8 qualified donees:
- Aboriginal Community Career Employment Services Society$4,950
- Electrical Joint Training Committee Foundation$3,500
- Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society$3,000
- The Board of Education of School District No. 36 (Surrey)$2,000
- The Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver)$2,000
- British Columbia Institute of Technology Foundation$2,000
- Nicola Valley Institute of Technology$1,000
- The Board of Education of School District No. 41 (Burnaby)$1,000
Received $28K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Susan Tatoosh (director); Stewart Anderson (secretary-treasurer); Ross Ramsey (director); Lou Demerais (director); Jennifer Forbes (chair); Olivia Jim (vice chair); Francesca De Bastiani (director); Nick Calla (director); Samantha Singbeil (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Urban Spirit Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 827895368RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.