Benchmark Properties Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Langley, British Columbia · BN 736062134RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($251,264) as filed with the CRA.
Benchmark Properties Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Langley, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.2M in revenue and $251K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 74% 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 31% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 23 qualified donees totalling $197K in 2024, the largest being $50K to Wagner Hills Farm Society. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $8.9M in 2021 to $3.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Distributing funds and income to qualified donnees as defined under the income tax act (canada) and other purposes beneficial to the community.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.2M | $251K | — | — | $197K | $15.1M |
| 2023 | $2.4M | $274K | — | — | $272K | $11.8M |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $682K | — | — | $680K | $9.7M |
| 2021 | $8.9M | $598K | — | — | $578K | $8.3M |
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$2,363,530
- Investment income$819,230
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 $197K to 23 qualified donees:
- Wagner Hills Farm Society$50K
- L I F E Recovery Association$25K
- Faith and Love Children's Ministry$19K
- Word & Deed Ministries Canada Inc.$11K
- Safe Families Canada$11K
- Mackie's Place Youth Social House Society$11K
- Advokate Life & Education Services Society$11K
- Nightshift Street Ministries Society$10K
- Langley Community Health and Hospital Foundation$10K
- Union Gospel Mission$5,500
- The Salvation Army Gateway of Hope$5,500
- Signal Hill Life Education Society$5,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,500
- Fraser Valley Scholarship Foundation$3,500
- M2W2 Association - Mentoring Towards Wholeness Together$2,750
- Christ For All Ministry$2,750
- Reformed Perspective Foundation Inc.$1,650
- Prison Fellowship of Canada$1,100
- Cascade Christian Counselling Association$1,100
- Canadian Reformed Senior Citizen Home Society$1,100
- Bethesda Christian Association$1,100
- Focus on the Family (canada) Association$550
- The Gloria Dei Chorale Society$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Bontkes (chair); Christina Bontkes (secretary); Marni Stuehmer (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Benchmark Properties Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 736062134RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.