Big Wheel Community Foundation
Private foundation · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 735037285RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($152,701) as filed with the CRA.
Big Wheel Community Foundation is a private foundation based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $152K in revenue and $153K in expenditures.
In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $15K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 18 qualified donees totalling $110K in 2024, the largest being $21K to FED Urban Agriculture Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $25K in 2021 to $152K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
We continued and expanded the basic living program that funds homeless and poverty afflicted individuals. Also regularly donate to various other charitable groups that mainly focus on indigenous and homeless. The new activity this year was the purchase of two Conestoga Huts to provide shelter for the homeless. We continue with this agenda and also respond to any new applications from organizations that concentrate on community improvements to the disadvantaged.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $152K | $153K | $39K | — | $113K | $20K |
| 2023 | $154K | $155K | $886 | — | $153K | $20K |
| 2022 | $109K | $67K | $33K | — | $66K | $22K |
| 2021 | $25K | $24K | $3,353 | — | $21K | $13K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, September 30, 2024
- Other income$150,044
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 $110K to 18 qualified donees:
- FED Urban Agriculture Society$21K
- Wisteria Community Association$9,053
- Victoria Rainbow Kitchen Society$9,053
- Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank Society$9,053
- The Mustard Seed Street Church$8,125
- Our Place Society$7,428
- Indian Residential School Survivors Society$6,500
- Power to Be Adventure Therapy Society$5,500
- Kidsport Greater Victoria$5,500
- The Victoria Youth Empowerment Society$4,500
- Greater Victoria Citizens' Counselling Centre$4,190
- Comox Valley Transition Society$3,704
- Umbrella Society for Addictions and Mental Health$3,498
- Peninsula Streams Society$3,406
- The Capital Region Prostate Centre$3,000
- Rewired Recovery Foundation$2,500
- Victoria Hospice Society$2,212
- Comox Valley Food Bank Society$2,000
Received $15K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Calen McNeil (director); Yann Frizon De Lamotte (director); Brian Meiklem (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Big Wheel Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 735037285RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.