Abbotsford Community Foundation
Public foundation · Abbotsford, British Columbia · BN 888499241RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,217,872) as filed with the CRA.
Abbotsford Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.8M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 51% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 81% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 86 qualified donees totalling $1.4M in 2024, the largest being $183K to Hope Community Services. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3M in 2020 to $4.8M in 2024.
In its own words
The foundation is a community grant making entity with the purpose of funding charitable educational recreational agricultural enhancement and cultural organizations which benefit members of the fraser valley. This is accomplished through endowment building serving donors and offering grants scholarships or bursaries to deserving individuals and organizations. Provide special events to raise awareness of the foundations purposes. Abbotsford community foundation disaster relief fund to fund charitable organizations who were at the forefront helping flood victims recover.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.8M | $2.2M | $514K | $62K | $1.4M | $22.4M |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $2M | $423K | $62K | $1.2M | $19.8M |
| 2022 | $973K | $4.7M | $730K | $50K | $2.1M | $18M |
| 2021 | $7.4M | $1.9M | $593K | $46K | $912K | $21.8M |
| 2020 | $3M | $1.7M | $533K | $39K | $932K | $16.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.4M to 86 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Hope Community Services$183K
- Agassiz-Harrison Community Services Society$144K
- Raven's Moon Resource Society$142K
- Power for All Adventure Therapy Society$127K
- Cyrus Centre Ministries$105K
- Ruth & Naomi's Mission$76K
- INASMUCH Community Society$70K
- Abbotsford Youth Commission$60K
- The Great Commission Foundation$50K
- Chawathil First Nation$50K
- Cares Counselling Society$50K
- Care for Women Foundation$49K
- University of the Fraser Valley$40K
- City of Abbotsford$22K
- City of Abbotsford$20K
- Abbotsford Hospice Society$15K
- The Gathering Church$15K
- The Canadian Council of Provincial & Territorial$13K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Fraser Valley$13K
- Archway Community Services Society$12K
- Creative Centre Society for Mental Wellness$12K
- Seabird Island Education Society Lalme' Iwesawtexw$10K
- Abbotsford Youth Commission$8,172
- Care for Women Foundation$7,500
- Abbotsford Hospice Society$7,500
Received $1.3M from 11 charities:
- Community Foundations of Canada$1.2M
- Canada Gives$53K
- Vancouver Foundation$35K
- BenefAction Foundation$21K
- Abbotsford Kiwanis Foundation$4,493
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,400
- The Foundation Office.ca$3,000
- Abby's Music Society$2,587
- GirlKind Foundation$1,150
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$1,000
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$70
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$243K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Abbotsford Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888499241RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.