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Registered charity

Michael Smith Foundation For Health Research

Legal name on the register: MICHAEL SMITH FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH RESEARCH

CA-E-CBSJ-STWBCurrentBritish ColumbiaCanada (federal)Vancouver3 independent sources
$41.1MRevenue reported
13On the board
9Organisations connected
3Municipal licences
85Employees reported
3Independent publishers
84/100Evidence depth
October 15, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
Identifier
CA-E-CBSJ-STWB
Address
200 - 1285 BROADWAY W, VANCOUVER, BC, V6H 3X8
Earliest record
October 1, 2021
Identifiers held
Charity registration
888674710RR0001
Business number
888674710
odbus-licence
City of Vancouver:22-113352
statcan-odbus
c4d76374fb17d927f7b0
Vancouver licence
4495215
Vancouver licence
4642758
Vancouver licence
4860447
Vancouver licence no.
24-113599
Vancouver licence no.
25-135035
Vancouver licence no.
26-137863
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Evidence depth
84/100
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: 9 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
90
Operationslicences and operating places
45
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
100
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
0
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
72
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
44

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 charity888674710RR0001—Registered
Municipal licences (3)
PlaceCategoryNumberFirst issuedStatus
VancouverAssociation or Society4495215November 22, 2023Issued
VancouverAssociation or Society4642758November 18, 2024Issued
VancouverAssociation or Society4860447November 25, 2025Issued

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 (13)
NamePositionServing sinceStatus
Glen CoppingDIRECTORMarch 25, 2024current
Gina OgilvieDIRECTORMarch 25, 2024current
Elinor WilsonBOARD CHAIROctober 1, 2021current
Max BlouwDIRECTOROctober 1, 2021current
Doug CochraneDIRECTOROctober 1, 2021current
Kathryn HayashiTREASUREROctober 1, 2021current
Geoffrey PayneSECRETARYOctober 1, 2021current
Sunny LooDIRECTOROctober 1, 2021current
Lyana PatrickDIRECTOROctober 1, 2021current
Richard ReesBOARD VICE-CHAIROctober 1, 2021current
Ian RongveDIRECTOROctober 1, 2021current
Martin SchechterDIRECTOROctober 1, 2021current
Sally ThorneDIRECTOROctober 1, 2021current

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 (9)

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
Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement (CFHI)
CA-E-P467-DKHK
Registered charity1
Dudes Club Society
CA-E-Q4M9-MV1J
Registered charity1
Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation
CA-E-VWEK-Y18F
Registered charity1
Interior Health Authority
CA-E-SMXF-ES6N
Registered charity1
Or Shalom Jewish Spiritual Community Association
CA-E-B2A7-P6G2
Registered charity1
Pacific Spirit United Church
CA-E-N6FT-CMVS
Registered charity1
Vancouver Hospice Society
CA-E-KJNS-Y3CZ
Registered charity1
Vancouver Legacy Foundation
CA-E-KMN6-W51N
Registered charity1
Vancouver Opera Association
CA-E-82HG-YFQV
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 March 31, 2024
Total revenue
$41,109,708
Total spending
$41,109,708
Total assets
$153,997,210
Total liabilities
$150,678,045
Charitable programs89.5% · $36.8M · line 5000
Management and administration10.5% · $4.3M · line 5010
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.
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. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  2. Licence first issued — Association or Society
  3. Licence first issued — Association or Society
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 V6H 3X8
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Statistics Canada and City of Vancouver
  • Same name and address — 1285 w broadway, 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
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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