Registered charity
Vancouver Island University Foundation
Legal name on the register: VANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
CA-E-0YHE-8CDHCurrentBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Nanaimo3 independent sources
$7.9MRevenue reported
$6.1MPublic money on record
33On the board
25Organisations connected
3Independent publishers
90/100Evidence depth
September 8, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-0YHE-8CDH
- Address
- 900 FIFTH STREET BUILDING 310, NANAIMO, BC, V9R 5S5
- Earliest record
- January 10, 1996
- Also known as
- Vancouver Island
Identifiers held
- Charity registration
- 107657678RR0001
- Charity registration
- 887333482RR0001
- Business number
- 100007280
- Business number
- 100007541
- Business number
- 107657678
- Business number
- 887333482
- odbus-licence
- Government of British Columbia:210007
- odbus-licence
- Government of British Columbia:31401
- odbus-licence
- Government of British Columbia:34527
- statcan-odbus
- 0760ad1244eabb8a05c1
- statcan-odbus
- 631dfa7ed05b05df66f8
- statcan-odbus
- cfff311a1d6df96c9d90
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Evidence depth
90/100
Deep recordThis scores the depth of the public evidence assembled here. It does not score the organisation’s quality, reputation, solvency or risk. The formula is fixed and reproducible. See the formula.
Identityregistrations and identifiers
Operationsmunicipal licences
Filed figuresfinancials or workforce
Public moneycontracts or grants
Relationshipsfiled board or organisation links
Qualificationsstanding offers or supply arrangements
Public activitypermits and recorded work
Regulatorydecided findings
Dated historyevents with effective dates
Additional graph evidence outside the score: 25 organisation connections.
Public footprint · version 1
Where this organisation appears in public records
Eight independent dimensions describe the size and shape of the evidence. They are deliberately not added into one company score: a licence, a grant, a director filing and a court finding mean different things.
Footprint is not performance.
A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.
Identityregistries, identifiers and corroboration
100
Operationslicences and operating places
0
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
60
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
81
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
89
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
90
Each dimension uses fixed, logarithmic caps so one dataset with thousands of repeated rows cannot drown out every other fact. Read the formula and limits.
Registrations
| Registrar | Instrument | Number | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada Revenue Agency | Registered charity | 887333482RR0001 | — | Registered |
| Canada Revenue Agency | Registered charity | 107657678RR0001 | — | Registered |
Board and officers on record (33)
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kiersten Packham | BOARD MEMBER | December 1, 2023 | current |
| Nate Bello | BOARD MEMBER | July 10, 2023 | current |
| Chris Jaeger | BOARD MEMBER | July 1, 2023 | current |
| Pankaj Jangir | BOARD MEMBER | July 1, 2023 | current |
| Cole Reinbold | BOARD MEMBER | July 1, 2023 | current |
| Manley Mclachlan | DIRECTOR(BOARD OF GOVERNOR(…) | September 6, 2022 | current |
| Coralee Katzberg | DIRECTOR | September 6, 2022 | current |
| George Anderson | BOARD CHAIR | July 31, 2022 | current |
| Brian Dick | BOARD MEMBER | July 1, 2022 | current |
| Johnny Blakeborough | BOARD MEMBER | July 1, 2022 | current |
| Richard Horbachewski | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | September 14, 2021 | current |
| Judith Sayers | CHANCELLOR | October 24, 2020 | current |
| Karen Bittner | BOARD MEMBER | December 31, 2019 | current |
| John Jack | BOARD MEMBER | July 31, 2019 | current |
| Deborah Saucier | PRESIDENT (EX-OFFICIO) | July 4, 2019 | current |
| Deborah Saucier | PRESIDENT & VICE-CHANCELLOR | July 1, 2019 | current |
| Kelly Bissell | CHAIR | September 12, 2018 | current |
| Vatslav Govorov | DIRECTOR | September 12, 2018 | current |
| Darren Reid | PAST CHAIR | September 12, 2018 | current |
| Lee Rowley | VICE-CHAIR | September 12, 2018 | current |
| Denise Wittkofski | DIRECTOR | September 12, 2018 | current |
| Colin Gabelmann | BOARD MEMBER | July 31, 2018 | current |
| Manley Mclachlan | BOARD MEMBER | July 31, 2018 | current |
| Kiera Brown | BOARD MEMBER | July 1, 2022 | ended June 30, 2023 |
| Katy Hamedankhah | BOARD MEMBER | July 1, 2022 | ended June 30, 2023 |
| Emmy Manson | BOARD MEMBER | July 31, 2020 | ended July 31, 2023 |
| Erin Egeland | BOARD MEMBER | July 1, 2020 | ended June 30, 2023 |
| Don Tamelin | DIRECTOR | September 9, 2014 | ended September 9, 2023 |
| Jason Nelson | DIRECTOR | September 11, 2008 | ended September 19, 2023 |
| Dave Boyd | DIRECTOR | September 15, 2005 | ended September 19, 2023 |
| Jeet Manhas | DIRECTOR | September 15, 2005 | ended September 19, 2023 |
| Michael Walker | DIRECTOR | June 2, 1999 | ended September 19, 2023 |
| Ross Fraser | DIRECTOR | January 10, 1996 | ended September 19, 2023 |
Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.
Organisations sharing a filed director name (25)
3 of them share more than one name, which is a much stronger link than the rest. Those are listed first.
One name in common is a lead. Two is a link. These come from the director names each organisation filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, matched exactly as filed, and two people can share a name — across the whole corpus 95% of these rest on a single name, so a single match is genuinely weak evidence and is presented as such rather than dressed up. Two of the same names on the same pair of boards is a different matter: coincidence stops being a plausible explanation. A name appearing on more than eight boards is discarded outright as a probable collision.
The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
What it raised and spent — year ended March 31, 2024
- Total revenue
- $7,936,451
- Total spending
- $446,145
- Total assets
- $39,656,595
- Total liabilities
- $1,470,701
- Receipted donations
- $927,088
- From other charities
- $1,643,696
- Granted onward
- $3,620,458
Charitable programs47.0% · $210K · line 5000
Management and administration6.3% · $28K · line 5010
Fundraising46.7% · $208K · line 5020
Not broken down in the return0.0% · $1
These are the charity’s own figures. They come from the T3010 return it filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, which is a statement the organisation makes about itself rather than an audit or an assessment of it. They are also a single year: a charity that received a capital gift, sold a building, or ran a campaign will look unlike itself.
A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
Public money on record
Federal contracts
$529,179
across 17 awards, 2021–2026
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | 8 | $231,175 |
| National Defence | 5 | $207,704 |
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | 4 | $90,300 |
Federal grants and contributions
$5,563,259
across 41 agreements, 2018–2025
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada | 11 | $2,237,609 |
| Indigenous Services Canada | 1 | $1,320,000 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 15 | $1,193,930 |
| Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | 1 | $384,700 |
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | 7 | $188,280 |
| Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | 1 | $80,000 |
| Global Affairs Canada | 2 | $75,300 |
| Parks Canada | 1 | $45,000 |
| National Research Council Canada | 1 | $25,000 |
| Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | 1 | $13,440 |
Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.
Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
What it does
- Industry code
- 3117 · 541710 · 72North American Industry Classification System
Trade and licence class are the publisher’s own words, kept as written rather than mapped onto a vocabulary of this site’s invention — a Calgary “RESTAURANT” and a Montréal “Restaurant service rapide” describe the same thing and are not the same string, and pretending otherwise would put words in a city’s mouth. The industry code is the exception: NAICS is a standard shared across Canada, the United States and Mexico, so it means the same thing wherever it appears. Only some publishers assign one.
Timeline
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$113,190
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$17,640
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$17,640
- Federal contract — National Defence$12,157
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$16,450
- Federal grant — Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada$80,000
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$15,435
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$15,435
- Federal contract — National Defence$89,219
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$15,435
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$14,699
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$7,502
- Federal grant — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$24,000
- Federal grant — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$20,000
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$565,757
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$19,950
- Federal grant — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$23,760
- Federal contract — Environment and Climate Change Canada$24,000
- Federal contract — National Defence$39,278
- Federal contract — National Defence$37,044
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$20,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$7,308
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$12,180
- Federal grant — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$8,000
- Federal grant — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$15,175
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$468,236
- Federal grant — Parks Canada$45,000
- Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$25,000
- Federal contract — Environment and Climate Change Canada$23,625
- Federal contract — National Defence$30,005
- Federal grant — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$88,435
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$44,600
- Federal grant — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$8,910
- Federal grant — Indigenous Services Canada$1,320,000
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$382,904
- Federal grant — Global Affairs Canada$52,200
- Federal contract — Environment and Climate Change Canada$18,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$54,654
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$266,437
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$50,000
Showing the 40 most recent of 58 dated events.
Why this is one record
6 public datasets from 3 independent publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.
- Same name and postal code V9R 5S5asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Statistics Canada
- Same name and address — 900 5th, nanaimo, BCasserted by Statistics Canada
An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.
Where this record comes from
| Dataset | Last captured | Cadence | Coverage kept | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 2, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 5, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — identification (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 8, 2026 | P1Y | 2 captures · 1 comparisons | current |
| Proactive publication — federal contracts over $10,000 Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 1, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 3, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Open Database of Businesses — version 1 Statistics Canada · Open Government Licence – Canada | — | — | — | not measured |
Freshness is measured, not implied. “Last captured” is when this project last completed a read of the whole source dataset. “Coverage kept” is how many immutable captures and meaningful capture-to-capture comparisons are available. A missed day remains an explicit gap; a later snapshot cannot tell us what happened inside it. See every source.
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