Vamvakas Family Foundation
Private foundation · North York, Ontario · BN 700842529RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($106,828) as filed with the CRA.
Vamvakas Family Foundation is a private foundation based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $100K in revenue and $107K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 80% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 8 qualified donees totalling $107K in 2024, the largest being $50K to Bayview Glen Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
To provide funds to other registered charities with a primary emphasis on organizations that are faith-based charities that are involved in various programs that assist youth and children and educational programs. The primary emphasis may expand in the future to other types of registered charities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $100K | $107K | — | — | $107K | $107K |
| 2023 | $200K | $142K | — | — | $142K | $113K |
| 2022 | $150K | $129K | — | — | $129K | $56K |
| 2021 | $100K | $94K | — | — | $93K | $34K |
| 2020 | — | $118K | — | — | $118K | $28K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$99,999
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $107K to 8 qualified donees:
- Bayview Glen Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada$50K
- Young Life of Canada$35K
- The Tyndale Foundation$10K
- The ClearWater Futures Foundation$5,000
- World Vision Canada$3,528
- The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada/alliance Évangélique du Canada$1,600
- Scott Mission$1,000
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nancy Vamvakas (trustee); Shawn Walsh (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vamvakas Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 700842529RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.