Wesik Family Foundation
Private foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 768519209RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($632,901) as filed with the CRA.
Wesik Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $395K in revenue and $633K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 78% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 11 qualified donees totalling $623K in 2024, the largest being $150K to The Vancouver Art Gallery Association. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1M in 2022 to $395K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Donation of income and capital of the foundation by way of gifts to qualified donees exclusively for charitable purposes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $395K | $633K | — | — | $623K | $2,726 |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.6M | — | — | $1.5M | $241K |
| 2022 | $1M | $663K | — | — | $650K | $374K |
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$385,000
- Investment income$9,647
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 $623K to 11 qualified donees:
- The Vancouver Art Gallery Association$150K
- Royal British Columbia Museum Foundation$125K
- British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation$105K
- Crofton House School$100K
- Arthur Erickson Foundation$37K
- Burnaby Hospital and Community Foundation$25K
- Arts Umbrella Association$25K
- British Columbia Institute of Technology Foundation$20K
- Estonian Ecumenical Relief Organization$16K
- SJS Saint John's School Society$10K
- Avalon Recovery Society$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Peeter Wesik (trustee); Mary Wesik (trustee); Elizabeth Wesik (trustee); Michael Wesik (trustee); Barbara Vanderburgh (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Wesik Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 768519209RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.