Registered charity
Royal Roads University Foundation
Legal name on the register: ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
CA-E-BEPK-4B1EFormerBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Victoria3 independent sources
$81.4MRevenue reported
$7.8MPublic money on record
33On the board
10Organisations connected
3Independent publishers
90/100Evidence depth
September 8, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-BEPK-4B1E
- Address
- 2005 SOOKE ROAD, VICTORIA, BC, V9B 5Y2
- Earliest record
- July 19, 2004
- Also known as
- Royal Roads
Identifiers held
- Charity registration
- 881174528RR0001
- Charity registration
- 899570063RR0001
- Business number
- 881174528
- Business number
- 899570063
- odbus-licence
- Government of British Columbia:172171
- odbus-licence
- Government of British Columbia:188637
- statcan-odbus
- 841c67f170ab0c41221d
- statcan-odbus
- f404cce54e23c16a4b10
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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: 10 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
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
89
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 | 899570063RR0001 | — | Registered |
| Canada Revenue Agency | Registered charity | 881174528RR0001 | — | Registered |
Board and officers on record (33)
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shannon Ostertag | AVP & Finance Officer | February 27, 2023 | current |
| Shannon Ostertag | ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT FIN | February 27, 2023 | current |
| Susan Gee | Vice President | January 1, 2022 | current |
| Susan Gee | VICE PRESIDENT | January 1, 2022 | current |
| Veronica Thompson | Vice President | January 1, 2021 | current |
| Veronica Thompson | VICE PRESIDENT | January 1, 2021 | current |
| Harish Kumar Tiwari | Board of Governors | November 1, 2023 | ended October 31, 2024 |
| Harish Kumar Tiwari | BOARD OF GOVERNORS | November 1, 2023 | ended October 31, 2024 |
| Gwen Campden | Board of Governors | April 1, 2023 | ended March 31, 2026 |
| Gwen Campden | BOARD OF GOVERNORS | April 1, 2023 | ended March 31, 2026 |
| Lily Chong | Board of Governors | October 1, 2022 | ended September 30, 2023 |
| Lily Chong | BOARD OF GOVERNORS | October 1, 2022 | ended September 30, 2023 |
| Catherine Holt | Board of Governors | August 1, 2022 | ended July 31, 2025 |
| Catherine Holt | BOARD OF GOVERNORS | August 1, 2022 | ended July 31, 2025 |
| Philip Twyford | VICE PRESIDENT & FINANCIAL OFF | June 20, 2022 | ended August 24, 2024 |
| Kevin Brewster | Board of Governors | April 16, 2022 | ended March 1, 2024 |
| Kevin Brewster | BOARD OF GOVERNORS | April 16, 2022 | ended March 1, 2024 |
| William Holmes | Board of Governors | April 4, 2022 | ended March 31, 2025 |
| William Holmes | BOARD OF GOVERNORS | April 4, 2022 | ended March 31, 2025 |
| Christina Benty | Board of Governors | April 6, 2021 | ended December 31, 2026 |
| Christina Benty | BOARD OF GOVERNORS | April 6, 2021 | ended December 31, 2026 |
| Monique Gray Smith | Board of Governors | July 31, 2020 | ended July 31, 2026 |
| Monique Gray Smith | BOARD OF GOVERNORS | July 31, 2020 | ended July 31, 2026 |
| Dave Saunders | Board of Governors | January 1, 2020 | ended July 31, 2023 |
| Dave Saunders | BOARD OF GOVERNORS | January 1, 2020 | ended July 31, 2025 |
| Philip Steenkamp | President | June 19, 2019 | ended December 31, 2028 |
| Philip Steenkamp | BOARD OF GOVERNORS | June 19, 2019 | ended December 31, 2028 |
| Geoff Pearce | Board of Governors | March 13, 2019 | ended March 12, 2025 |
| Geogg Pearce | BOARD OF GOVERNORS | March 13, 2019 | ended March 12, 2024 |
| Nelson Chan | Board of Governors | June 22, 2018 | ended July 31, 2025 |
| Nelson Chan | BOARD OF GOVERNORS | June 22, 2018 | ended July 31, 2025 |
| Lori Simcox | Board of Governors | December 31, 2017 | ended December 31, 2023 |
| Lori Simcox | BOARD OF GOVERNORS | December 31, 2017 | ended December 31, 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 (10)
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cascade Institute Research Society CA-E-9844-A5ZQ | Registered charity | 5 |
| Chinese Presbyterian Church CA-E-TBDE-XGG8 | Registered charity | 1 |
| Friends of RAVEN Foundation CA-E-CMQ7-0T9G | Registered charity | 1 |
| North Point Community Church CA-E-ZMEY-79EA | Registered charity | 1 |
| Peoples Gospel Church CA-E-HPNF-B11Y | Registered charity | 1 |
| Phss Foundation CA-E-Y96D-G670 | Registered charity | 1 |
| RAVEN (Respecting Aboriginal Values and Environmental Needs) CA-E-AMGP-P116 | Registered charity | 1 |
| St. Andrew's United Church CA-E-GQCP-R9F6 | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Diocesan Synod Of Central Newfoundland CA-E-CXBM-3RZE | Registered charity | 1 |
| The Garth Homer Society CA-E-DRR6-1SNK | 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, 2005 SOOKE RD.
| Organisation | Kind |
|---|---|
| Cascade Institute Research Society CA-E-9844-A5ZQ | 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
- $81,363,815
- Total spending
- $89,797,098
- Total assets
- $184,371,511
- Total liabilities
- $146,240,764
- From other charities
- $1,818,106
- Granted onward
- $2,535,974
Charitable programs87.7% · $78.7M · line 5000
Management and administration11.6% · $10.5M · line 5010
Not broken down in the return0.7% · $603K
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
$416,500
across 16 awards, 2004–2026
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Natural Resources Canada | 2 | $120,684 |
| National Defence | 4 | $114,968 |
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | 1 | $39,900 |
| Parks Canada | 2 | $37,408 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 2 | $32,025 |
| Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat | 1 | $24,584 |
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | 2 | $20,573 |
| Health Canada | 1 | $14,963 |
| Women and Gender Equality Canada | 1 | $11,395 |
Federal grants and contributions
$7,347,768
across 33 agreements, 2011–2026
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada | 11 | $2,985,733 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 2 | $1,592,986 |
| Natural Resources Canada | 1 | $1,212,029 |
| Pacific Economic Development Canada | 1 | $677,800 |
| Canadian Heritage | 6 | $406,620 |
| Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | 1 | $346,700 |
| Global Affairs Canada | 10 | $116,800 |
| Veterans Affairs Canada | 1 | $9,100 |
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
- 541990 · 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 grant — Global Affairs Canada$7,000
- Federal contract — National Defence$52,500
- Federal contract — Women and Gender Equality Canada$11,395
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$45,840
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$392,694
- Federal grant — Pacific Economic Development Canada$677,800
- Federal grant — Veterans Affairs Canada$9,100
- Federal contract — Employment and Social Development Canada$11,025
- Federal grant — Global Affairs Canada$8,700
- Federal grant — Global Affairs Canada$6,100
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$12,000
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$354,908
- Federal contract — Employment and Social Development Canada$21,000
- Federal grant — Global Affairs Canada$8,700
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$1,517,997
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$350,786
- Federal contract — National Defence$21,668
- Federal contract — Environment and Climate Change Canada$39,900
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$370,826
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$50,000
- Federal contract — Health Canada$14,963
- Federal grant — Global Affairs Canada$5,000
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$378,436
- Federal contract — Natural Resources Canada$109,384
- Federal grant — Global Affairs Canada$21,400
- Federal contract — Natural Resources Canada$11,300
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$500,000
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$334,442
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$37,729
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$50,000
- Federal grant — Global Affairs Canada$7,700
- Federal grant — Global Affairs Canada$10,700
- Federal grant — Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada$346,700
- Federal grant — Natural Resources Canada$1,212,029
- Federal grant — Global Affairs Canada$23,100
- Federal grant — Global Affairs Canada$18,400
- Federal contract — Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat$24,584
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$165,912
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$10,238
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$10,335
Showing the 40 most recent of 49 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 V9B 5Y2asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Statistics Canada
- Same name and address — 2005 sooke, victoria, BCasserted by Canada Revenue Agency and 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.
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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