Bowen Island Community Foundation
Public foundation · Bowen Island, British Columbia · BN 883618514RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,592,659) as filed with the CRA.
Bowen Island Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Bowen Island, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $762K in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 36% from donations, 15% from other charities. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $314K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 76% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 29 qualified donees totalling $1.5M in 2024, the largest being $1000K to Bowen Island Municipality. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $386K in 2020 to $762K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The Foundation receives donations and provides grants to qualified donees in support of artistic cultural educational recreational and social well-being of residents on Bowen Island. Grant recipients include organizations supporting seniors youth and other community groups. It maintains ongoing efforts to build and develop endowment funds.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $762K | $1.6M | $50K | — | $1.5M | $450K |
| 2023 | $441K | $491K | $35K | — | $408K | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $366K | $314K | $13K | — | $258K | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $429K | $14K | — | $365K | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $386K | $370K | $15K | — | $314K | $327K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.5M to 29 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Bowen Island Municipality$1000K
- Vancouver Foundation$171K
- Bowen Island Pastoral Charge$115K
- Snug Cove House Society$25K
- The Bowen Island Arts Council$21K
- University of Victoria$20K
- Bowen Island Seniors Keeping Young Society$20K
- Bowen Island Conservancy$19K
- Golf Canada$17K
- Helping Hand$17K
- The University of British Columbia$13K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$9,500
- Queen's University at Kingston$9,000
- Neighborhood Small Grants$8,698
- University of King's College$5,000
- The University of Western Ontario$4,000
- Simon Fraser University$4,000
- The Bowen Island Community School Association$4,000
- Bowen Island Public Library Foundation$3,977
- University of Northern British Columbia$3,000
- Capliano University Foundation$3,000
- Vancouver Island University Foundation$2,500
- University of Ottawa$2,500
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$2,500
- Concordia University-Universite Concordia$2,500
Received $314K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Leila Swann (treasurer secretary); Richard Smith (director); Kate Thomas-Peter (director); Janette Seaman (director); Leah Gregg (director); Gayle Farrell (director); Greg Gibson (director); Bobbi Parker (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bowen Island Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 883618514RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.