BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust
Private foundation · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 889407466RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,504,673) as filed with the CRA.
BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust is a private foundation based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.5M in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 96% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1,802 qualified donees totalling $2.6M in 2024, the largest being $117K to British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Managed the annual fundraising campaign among the provincial government employees for donations and distribution of funds to regional charities throughout Canada mainly the B.C. region.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $2.5M | — | — | $2.5M | $0 |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $2.3M | — | — | $2.3M | $0 |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $2.4M | — | — | $2.4M | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $2.3M | — | — | $2.3M | $0 |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $2.1M | — | — | $2.1M | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.6M to 1,802 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$117K
- British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation$75K
- The Mustard Seed Street Church$67K
- BC Cancer Foundation$62K
- The Victoria Cool Aid Society$53K
- Victoria Rainbow Kitchen Society$52K
- Victoria Hospice Society$45K
- Child Abuse Prevention and Counselling Society of Greater Victoria$43K
- Victoria Women's Transition House Society$43K
- Island Sexual Health Society$39K
- Alzheimer Society of B.C.$39K
- Indian Residential School Survivors Society$34K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$33K
- Victoria Humane Society$33K
- Canadian Cancer Society$31K
- Our Place Society$31K
- Victoria Sexual Assault Centre Society$28K
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of B.C. and Yukon$28K
- Island Deaf and Hard of Hearing Centre Association$26K
- Crisis Intervention and Public Information Society of Greater Victoria$26K
- Victoria Native Friendship Centre$22K
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$22K
- Canadian Paraplegic Association (b.c.)$21K
- Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria$20K
- The Cridge Centre for the Family$17K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Deb Godfrey (chair director); Alison Bond (campaign representation dire); Doug Caul (deputy chair & staff liaison); Jason Butler (financial officer director); Melanie Wilson (employee representative dire).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889407466RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.