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Registered charity

Vancouver Foundation

Legal name on the register: VANCOUVER FOUNDATION

CA-E-7R49-BRC4FormerBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver5 independent sources
$288.5MRevenue reported
$11.0MPublic money on record
18On the board
16Organisations connected
3Municipal licences
49Employees reported
5Independent publishers
100/100Evidence depth
October 24, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
Identifier
CA-E-7R49-BRC4
Address
200 - 475 GEORGIA ST W, VANCOUVER, BC, V6B 4M9
Earliest record
May 1, 2014
Identifiers held
Charity registration
119281640RR0001
Business number
119281640
Legal Entity Identifier
5493001MSTV232NYP244
odbus-licence
City of Vancouver:22-113186
statcan-odbus
de4186ceafc8252f6ef3
Vancouver licence
4495065
Vancouver licence
4642612
Vancouver licence
4860308
Vancouver licence no.
24-113447
Vancouver licence no.
25-134889
Vancouver licence no.
26-137724
Global legal identity. This organisation carries a Legal Entity Identifier in the GLEIF system. The LEI is evidence attached to this entities.ca record; it does not replace the permanent Canadian Entity Identifier. Open the GLEIF source record.
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Evidence depth
100/100
Deep record

This 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: 16 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
45
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
100
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
70
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
78
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
93

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
RegistrarInstrumentNumberRegisteredStatus
Canada Revenue AgencyRegistered charity119281640RR0001—Registered
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)Legal Entity Identifier5493001MSTV232NYP244April 1, 2016ACTIVE — LEI ISSUED · GLEIF ENTITY_SUPPLIED_ONLY
Municipal licences (3)
PlaceCategoryNumberFirst issuedStatus
VancouverAssociation or Society4495065December 21, 2023Issued
VancouverAssociation or Society4642612December 23, 2024Issued
VancouverAssociation or Society4860308November 26, 2025Inactive

A licence records permission to operate. It is issued by a municipality, not by a corporate registrar, and its presence says the organisation traded at that address on that date — nothing about whether it does today.

Board and officers on record (18)
NamePositionServing sinceStatus
Salima RemtullaDirectorMay 1, 2024ended April 30, 2027
Olaolu AdeleyeDirectorMay 1, 2024ended April 30, 2027
Mary AckenhusenDIRECTORMay 1, 2023ended April 30, 2026
Miranda HuronDIRECTORMay 1, 2023ended April 30, 2026
James TempleDIRECTORMay 1, 2023ended December 31, 2024
Dan WalkerDIRECTORMay 1, 2023ended April 30, 2026
Amanda BaronDIRECTORMay 1, 2023ended April 30, 2026
Aftab ErfanDIRECTORMay 1, 2023ended April 30, 2026
Kelly WoodallDIRECTORMay 1, 2022ended April 30, 2025
Sirish RaoDirectorMay 1, 2022ended April 30, 2025
Praveen VarshneyDIRECTORMay 1, 2021ended April 30, 2024
Carmen LansdowneDIRECTORMay 1, 2021ended April 30, 2024
Dawn JiaDIRECTORMay 1, 2021ended April 30, 2024
Susan GrossmanDIRECTORMay 1, 2020ended April 30, 2026
Alexandra GreenhillDIRECTORMay 1, 2018ended April 30, 2024
Helen BlackburnDIRECTORMay 1, 2018ended April 30, 2027
Brenda EatonDIRECTORMay 1, 2017ended April 30, 2026
Christopher HinksonDIRECTORMay 1, 2014ended April 30, 2024

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 (16)

Every one of these rests on a single name in common, which is the weakest form this evidence takes — read them as leads, not findings.

OrganisationKindNames in common
Foundations For Social Change
CA-E-JN6H-K5TV
Registered charity1
Greater Vancouver International Film Festival Society
CA-E-M45A-AHNC
Registered charity1
Instruments Beyond Borders Society
CA-E-5J26-CX2E
Registered charity1
Lester B. Pearson College Of The Pacific And United World Colleges (canada) INC.
CA-E-Y4AZ-KK51
Registered charity1
Max Bell Foundation
CA-E-7X9H-4244
Registered charity1
Myriad Canada Foundation
CA-E-D8MM-GKKJ
Registered charity1
Smi Film Society
CA-E-4EZM-BPG7
Registered charity1
Société De Recherche Sur Le Cancer/cancer Research Society
CA-E-A8S7-5C2R
Registered charity1
Spiritual Assembly Of The Baha'is Of Castlegar
CA-E-6FHG-YDK1
Registered charity1
The Canadian Red Cross Society
CA-E-CSCF-XWQ1
Registered charity1
The Children's Safety Village Of Brant
CA-E-CE14-73CA
Registered charity1
The Dalai Lama Center For Peace And Education
CA-E-WSYD-342X
Registered charity1
The United Church Of Canada
CA-E-R6X5-N11P
Registered charity1
Ubc Alumni Association Educational Endowment Trust
CA-E-QMXR-NMVV
Registered charity1
United Way British Columbia
CA-E-H283-43S1
Registered charity1
Varshney Family Foundation
CA-E-JPJN-ZBEC
Registered charity1
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.
What it raised and spent — year ended December 31, 2024
Total revenue
$288,450,044
Total spending
$31,577,124
Total assets
$1,736,690,986
Total liabilities
$-56,242,393
Receipted donations
$31,432,818
From other charities
$23,741,247
Granted onward
$124,232,029
Charitable programs27.9% · $8.8M · line 5000
Management and administration58.6% · $18.5M · line 5010
Fundraising13.0% · $4.1M · line 5020
Not broken down in the return0.4% · $134K
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.
Public money on record
Federal grants and contributions
$10,981,863

across 76 agreements, 2018–2025

2018$5.7M
2020$609K
2021$720K
2023$608K
2024$2.2M
2025$1.2M
Paying institutionAwardsValue
Canadian Heritage76$10,981,863
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.
What it does
Trade
Community Association
Licensed as
Association or Society
Industry code
81
North 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
  1. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$51,361
  2. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$2,561
  3. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$127,814
  4. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$157,783
  5. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$207,473
  6. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$537,893
  7. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$8,581
  8. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$3,458
  9. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$77,406
  10. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$5,840
  11. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$3,851
  12. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  13. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  14. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$12,928
  15. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$8,109
  16. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$48,337
  17. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$64,457
  18. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$160,940
  19. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$11,633
  20. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$164,345
  21. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$6,445
  22. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$13,545
  23. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$3,223
  24. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$33,847
  25. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$831,007
  26. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$3,938
  27. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$60,696
  28. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$773,390
  29. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  30. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$4,984
  31. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$26,269
  32. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$20,899
  33. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$43,095
  34. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$11,923
  35. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$147,177
  36. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$176,668
  37. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$5,889
  38. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$9,934
  39. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$130,058
  40. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$10,276

Showing the 40 most recent of 79 dated events.

Why this is one record

7 public datasets from 5 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 V6B 4M9
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) and Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
  • Same name and address — 200 475 georgia w, vancouver, BC
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)
  • Same name and address — 475 w georgia, vancouver, BC
    asserted by Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver

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
DatasetLast capturedCadenceCoverage keptHealth
Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 2, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 5, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — identification (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 8, 2026P1Y2 captures · 1 comparisonscurrent
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 3, 2026P3M1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Global LEI Index — Canadian legal entities
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) · Public Domain — CC0 1.0 Universal
October 24, 2026P1D5 captures · 4 comparisonsdue
Open Database of Businesses — version 1
Statistics Canada · Open Government Licence – Canada
———not measured
Vancouver business licences
City of Vancouver · Open Government Licence – Vancouver
October 15, 2026P1M3 captures · 1 comparisonscurrent
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.

This page is assembled from open data. It is not an official record, and the registrar is authoritative where the two disagree. How records are assembled.

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