Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119258374RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,418,635) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 63% from donations, 26% from other charities. In 2024, 34 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $786K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 65% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 77% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 38 qualified donees totalling $2.2M in 2024, the largest being $568K to The Board of Education of School District No. 36 (Surrey). Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Adopt-a-school: issues grants to programs run by qualified donees (I.e. Schools boards community associations children's charities) aimed at ensuring food security provision of clothing and other necessities as well as for mentorship programs sports programs and arts programs to needy students in british columbia. Also provides grants to advance education by providing funding for books equipment and educational/technological aids.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $2.4M | — | $57K | $2.2M | $4.2M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $2M | — | $52K | $1.8M | $4.8M |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $1.8M | — | $54K | $1.6M | $4.7M |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $2.1M | — | $70K | $1.9M | $4M |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1.2M | — | $56K | $1.1M | $3.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.2M to 38 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Board of Education of School District No. 36 (Surrey)$568K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver)$505K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 42 (Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows)$182K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 52 (Prince Rupert)$108K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 82 (Coast Mountains)$95K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 41 (Burnaby)$81K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 91 (Nechako Lakes)$68K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 68 (Nanaimo-Ladysmith)$52K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake)$52K
- Francophone Education Authorities (conseil Scolaire Francophone)$50K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 43 (Coquitlam)$48K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 71 (Comox Valley)$40K
- Strathcona Community Centre Association (1972)$35K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 33 (Chilliwack)$35K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 34 (Abbotsford)$34K
- Kateslem Youth Society$30K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 20 (Kootenay-Columbia)$28K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 57 (Prince George)$23K
- Vancouver Homework Club Society$20K
- Courtenay Elementary Community School Society$20K
- Saint James Music Academy$19K
- Langley School District Foundation$17K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 46 (Sunshine Coast)$15K
- North Delta Rotary Charitable Foundation$15K
- Kiwassa Neighbourhood Services Association$15K
Received $786K from 34 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$293K
- Lohn Foundation$100K
- Walsh Foundation$90K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$59K
- Canadahelps Canadon$26K
- Canadahelps Canadon$26K
- April 1 Foundation$25K
- Value Partners Charitable Foundation Inc.$25K
- DR. Ann Worth Charitable Foundation$20K
- Diane Harwood Memorial Trust$20K
- Schmelke Family Charitable Foundation$20K
- Courtlands Charitable Foundation$10K
- Ames Family Foundation$10K
- Jack and Doris Brown Foundation$10K
- LRJ Charitable Foundation$10K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$7,900
- West Vancouver Community Foundation$6,000
- Mel and Geri Davis Charitable Trust$5,000
- Sant Jalaram Charitable Foundation of North America$5,000
- Gadhia Family Foundation$5,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,800
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,600
- United Way British Columbia$1,484
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Daphne Bramham (director); Valerie Casselton (director); Lori Fralic (director); Courtney Moore (director); Harold Munro (chairman board of directors); Wendy Porter (treasurer board of directors); Gillian Shaw (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119258374RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.