892524364RR0001 — 0090
Registered — New westminster, BC — Private Foundation
Scores: Legitimacy 100/100 · Effectiveness 73/100
Financials: Revenue $3,051,841 · Expenditures $1,337
WSL Foundation is a 32-year-old New Westminster private foundation (designation 3, three-member board) whose 2023 filing shows a dramatic capital event: revenue jumped from $7,128 in 2022 to $3.05M in 2023 — the kind of step-change typical of a single large bequest or estate gift. Compliance is clean (legitimacy 100, zero unregistered outflows, no political activity), and the small foundation appears to be in a hold-and-deploy phase, with $3.38M in assets against just $1,337 of 2023 expenditures.
Our Verdict: A small, long-tenured family foundation that received a major one-time inflow in 2023 — the data picture is clean from a compliance standpoint, though donors and observers will want to watch how and where these new resources are deployed in coming filings.