Vancouver Community College Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119282846RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,990,807) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Community College Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $5.9M in revenue and $2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 70% from donations, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $664K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 7% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.7M in 2020 to $5.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Providing scholarships and bursaries to students at vancouver community college providing equipment for programs at vancouver community college and providing funds for program development and faculties expansion at vancouver community college
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.9M | $2M | $950K | $338K | — | $24.6M |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $2.1M | $843K | $131K | — | $19.8M |
| 2022 | $3.5M | $2.4M | $2.7M | $131K | — | $18.1M |
| 2021 | $3M | $1.5M | $937K | $897 | — | $18M |
| 2020 | $2.7M | $1.8M | $1.1M | $130K | — | $14.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $664K from 23 charities:
- The Barrett Family Foundation$350K
- Vancouver Foundation$170K
- Y.P. Heung Foundation$61K
- Jean IP Foundation$25K
- Diamond Foundation$10K
- New Car Dealers Foundation of BC$10K
- Credit Union Foundation of British Columbia$6,250
- United Way British Columbia$5,005
- The Ascension Foundation$5,000
- University Womens Club of Vancouver Trust Fund for Education$4,000
- Pena Family Foundation$3,000
- Coram Deo Foundation$2,500
- The Ed Coates Memorial Foundation$2,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$2,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$2,000
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$1,000
- The Chaim Zbar Foundation$1,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$879
- ASTTBC Foundation$850
- Jacqui Cohen Family Foundation$500
- Canadahelps Canadon$292
- The Mel JR. & Marty Zajac Foundation$200
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$751K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ken Cretney (chair); Mark Andrew (secretary); Kay Wong-Alafriz (director); Geoff Bowman (director); Barb Steele (director); Zoran Kovacevic (director); Peter Van Dyke (treasurer); Alister Mathieson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Community College Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119282846RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.