Banff Canmore Community Foundation
Public foundation · Banff, Alberta · BN 874819410RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,804,889) as filed with the CRA.
Banff Canmore Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Banff, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from donations, 26% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $959K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 38 qualified donees totalling $1.4M in 2024, the largest being $555K to Board of Governors of The Banff Centre. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $133K in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
1. With our donors partners and community philanthropists we build community funds to support current and future generations. 2. We set and refine collaborative community-building priorities through informed research and community opinion surveys and by convening. 3. We build the capacity of the volunteer sector non-profits charities and the agencies that are sustaining community through strategic grant-making scholarships training education and networking.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $355K | $79K | $1.2M | $11.1M |
| 2023 | $2M | $1.6M | $476K | $36K | $914K | $15M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $309K | $39K | $799K | $14.7M |
| 2021 | $3.6M | $1.2M | $172K | $21K | $877K | $14.7M |
| 2020 | $133K | $891K | $210K | $35K | $493K | $12.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.4M to 38 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Board of Governors of The Banff Centre$555K
- Improvement District No. 9 (ID9)$310K
- Rocky Mountain Adaptive Sports Centre$182K
- Young Women's Christian Association of Banff$68K
- Town of Banff$52K
- Star 6 Ranch Foundation$52K
- The Peter & Catharine Whyte Foundation$40K
- Ralph Connor Memorial United Church$26K
- Town of Canmore$18K
- ST. George's-In-The-Pines Anglican Church of Canada$15K
- Iyahrhe Nakoda Food Bank Society$15K
- Covenant Foundation$13K
- Canadian Rockies Regional School Division # 12$11K
- Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley$10K
- Banff Senior Citizens Society$9,600
- Centennial Museum Society of Canmore$7,500
- Canadian Mountain Arts Foundation$6,888
- Canmore and Area Health CARE Foundation$6,000
- Banff Public Library Board$5,700
- Pinetree Players$5,000
- Bow Valley Naturalists Society$4,800
- Bowstrings Heritage Foundation$4,100
- Government of Alberta$4,000
- The Alpine Club of Canada$3,500
- Canmore Folk Music Festival Society$3,500
Received $959K from 18 charities:
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$475K
- Wim and Nancy Pauw Foundation$263K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$65K
- The Calgary Foundation$54K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$25K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$25K
- The Friends of the Canmore Library Society$11K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,269
- Canada Gives$7,000
- Community Foundations of Canada$7,000
- Wolfe Pack Warriors Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,457
- Vancouver Foundation$4,050
- Northwestern Alberta Foundation$2,830
- BenefAction Foundation$2,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$910
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$376
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$300
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
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$158K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Steven Glover (treasurer); Ian O'Donnell; Fiona Jones (board chair); Sandy Last; Barbara McNeil; Joanna Croston; Kathi Irvine; Osmond Chiu; Ken Hughes.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Banff Canmore Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 874819410RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.