Centre Wellington Community Foundation
Public foundation · Elora, Ontario · BN 859545295RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($251,516) as filed with the CRA.
Centre Wellington Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Elora, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4M in revenue and $252K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 90% from donations. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $197K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 3% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 14 qualified donees totalling $83K in 2024, the largest being $28K to The Children's Foundation of Guelph and Wellington. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $544K in 2020 to $4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4M | $252K | — | — | $83K | $5.9M |
| 2023 | $546K | $287K | — | — | $207K | $2.2M |
| 2022 | $768K | $150K | — | — | $97K | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $255K | $140K | — | — | $62K | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $544K | $354K | — | — | $257K | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $83K to 14 qualified donees:
- The Children's Foundation of Guelph and Wellington$28K
- Art Gallery of Guelph$20K
- Community Foundations of Canada$10K
- Community Resource Centre of North and Centre Wellington$9,500
- The Elora Centre for Environmental Excellence$2,265
- Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington Branch$2,000
- Junior Achievement of Waterloo Region Foundation$1,500
- The Elora Singers$1,500
- Centre Wellington Food Bank$1,500
- Three Centuries Festival$1,500
- Elora Centre for the Arts$1,500
- Scientists in School$1,455
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Centre Wellington$1,375
- Upper Grand Learning Foundation$1,000
Received $197K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$47K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jean Prichard (treasurer); Randall Howard (chair); Eric Oakley; Harvey Thomson (secretary); Don Fisher (member); Peter McPhedran (member); Rachel Luther (member); Elysia Delaurentis (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Centre Wellington Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 859545295RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.