Around the Bend Foundation
Private foundation · Bridgewater, Nova Scotia · BN 856077763RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($427,883) as filed with the CRA.
Around the Bend Foundation is a private foundation based in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $553K in revenue and $428K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 54% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 99% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $425K in 2024, the largest being $300K to Brigadoon Children's Camp Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $270K in 2020 to $553K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation obtains capital contributions and uses income and capital to make donations to other qualifing charities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $553K | $428K | $425K | — | $425K | $5.6M |
| 2023 | $429K | $434K | — | — | $425K | $4.4M |
| 2022 | $255K | $320K | — | — | $320K | $4.4M |
| 2021 | $236K | $390K | — | — | $390K | $5.3M |
| 2020 | $270K | $301K | — | — | $301K | $4.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$300,000
- Investment income$253,042
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $425K to 2 qualified donees:
- Brigadoon Children's Camp Society$300K
- Canadian Cancer Society$125K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Annette Wagner (trustee); Susan Saunders (trustee); R. Andrew Kimball (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Around the Bend Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 856077763RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.