Registered charity
Makeway Foundation
Legal name on the register: MAKEWAY FOUNDATION
CA-E-B0D2-G2FKFormerBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources
$34.8MRevenue reported
$709KPublic money on record
15On the board
6Organisations connected
3Municipal licences
26Employees reported
3Independent publishers
93/100Evidence depth
October 15, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-B0D2-G2FK
- Address
- 8FLOOR - 333 SEYMOUR ST, VANCOUVER, BC, V6B 5A6
- Earliest record
- April 24, 2008
Identifiers held
- Charity registration
- 868947797RR0001
- Business number
- 868947797
- Vancouver licence
- 4586006
- Vancouver licence
- 4643127
- Vancouver licence
- 4860808
- Vancouver licence no.
- 24-273625
- Vancouver licence no.
- 25-135404
- Vancouver licence no.
- 26-138224
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Evidence depth
93/100
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: 6 organisation connections · 1 same-address neighbours.
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
90
Operationslicences and operating places
45
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
100
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
49
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
74
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
76
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 | 868947797RR0001 | — | Registered |
Municipal licences (3)
| Place | Category | Number | First issued | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vancouver | Association or Society | 4586006 | October 8, 2024 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Association or Society | 4643127 | December 16, 2024 | Issued |
| Vancouver | Association or Society | 4860808 | November 18, 2025 | Issued |
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 (15)
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barend Van der Vorm | Director | September 25, 2023 | current |
| Cathy Galligos | Director | September 25, 2023 | current |
| MJ Sinha | Director | September 25, 2023 | current |
| Biboye Agabana | Director | March 29, 2023 | current |
| Erica Barbosa | Director | December 15, 2021 | current |
| Caroline Merner | Director | December 15, 2021 | current |
| Raisa Mirza | Director | December 15, 2021 | current |
| Leslie Campbell | Director | October 16, 2020 | current |
| Aerin Jacob | Secretary | February 20, 2019 | current |
| Denise Williams | Chair | February 20, 2019 | current |
| Katie Johnson | Director | September 25, 2023 | ended June 23, 2024 |
| Julie Gelfand | Director | December 15, 2021 | ended May 19, 2023 |
| Maxine Ifill | Treasurer | December 16, 2020 | ended July 3, 2024 |
| Justin Ferbey | Director | May 28, 2015 | ended April 30, 2023 |
| Andrew Heintzman | Director | April 24, 2008 | ended June 28, 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 (6)
1 of them shares more than one name, which is a much stronger link than the rest. Those are listed first.
| Organisation | Kind | Names in common |
|---|---|---|
| Makeway Charitable Society CA-E-BSZZ-D69R | Registered charity | 14 |
| Community Sector Council Of Newfoundland And Labrador INC. CA-E-ENT4-H6PM | Registered charity | 1 |
| Generate Canada INC. CA-E-HDJG-Z43J | Registered charity | 1 |
| Manitoba Wheelchair Sport Association INC. CA-E-1ZXK-JZMQ | Registered charity | 1 |
| Poetry In Voice CA-E-1MW5-E3KS | Registered charity | 1 |
| World Wildlife Fund Canada Foundation CA-E-YZA2-VQT6 | Registered charity | 1 |
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.
At the same address (1)
Organisations that filed the same street address and suite as this one, 8FLOOR - 333 SEYMOUR ST.
| Organisation | Kind |
|---|---|
| Makeway Charitable Society CA-E-BSZZ-D69R | Registered charity |
A shared door is not always a shared purpose. Sharing an address can mean one organisation with several registered arms, a building a sector clusters in, or simply a landlord. It is a fact about where filings were sent, not a claim about who controls whom.
Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
What it raised and spent — year ended March 31, 2024
- Total revenue
- $34,789,020
- Total spending
- $9,134,440
- Total assets
- $92,412,481
- Total liabilities
- $1,267,204
- Receipted donations
- $3,091,632
- From other charities
- $8,732,178
- Granted onward
- $28,840,789
Charitable programs33.5% · $3.1M · line 5000
Management and administration61.9% · $5.7M · line 5010
Fundraising4.6% · $417K · line 5020
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 grants and contributions
$708,969
across 7 agreements, 2020–2024
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Women and Gender Equality Canada | 1 | $500,000 |
| Parks Canada | 1 | $100,000 |
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research | 1 | $75,000 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 4 | $33,969 |
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
- Licensed as
- Association or Society
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.
Timeline
- Licence first issued — Association or Society
- Licence first issued — Association or Society
- Licence first issued — Association or Society
- Federal grant — Parks Canada$100,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$9,680
- Federal grant — Women and Gender Equality Canada$500,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$14,114
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$5,636
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$4,539
- Federal grant — Canadian Institutes of Health Research$75,000
Why this is one record
5 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 V6B 5A6asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and City of Vancouver
- Same name and address — 333 seymour, vancouver, BCasserted by 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
| 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 disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 3, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Vancouver business licences City of Vancouver · Open Government Licence – Vancouver | October 15, 2026 | P1M | 3 captures · 1 comparisons | current |
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