Beautiful Plains Community Foundation Inc.
Public foundation · Neepawa, Manitoba · BN 894809730RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($443,081) as filed with the CRA.
Beautiful Plains Community Foundation Inc. is a public foundation based in Neepawa, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $443K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 40% from donations. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $22K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 53% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 91% of that peer group. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $476K in 2020 to $1.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Neepawa is a registered public foundation established to support the cultural educational recreational and charitable purposes in the town of neepawa and surrounding areas the foundations' mission is to earn investment income and distribute this income to the community by means of grants.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $443K | $128K | $7,558 | $260K | $5.7M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $359K | $56K | $23K | $209K | $5.1M |
| 2022 | $447K | $793K | $556K | $17K | $155K | $4.3M |
| 2021 | $706K | $276K | $87K | — | $160K | $4.7M |
| 2020 | $476K | $379K | $101K | — | $243K | $4.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $22K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$38K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jefferey Miner (vice president); Sarah Fast (president); Dan Free (director); Danny Guillas (director); Colleen Taylor (director); Craig Johnston (treasurer); Diane Paterson (director); Maryann Marquex (director); Brenda Osmond (director); Jenna Lowry (director); Tammy Wilson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Beautiful Plains Community Foundation Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 894809730RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.