Charlton L Smith Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 889858940RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($217,403) as filed with the CRA.
Charlton L Smith Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $206K in revenue and $217K in expenditures.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 32% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 28 qualified donees totalling $167K in 2024, the largest being $15K to Victoria Hospice Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Foundation holds and invests funds to enable it to have funds available to provide grants to hospitals universities amateur athletic organizations and other non-profit organizations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $206K | $217K | — | — | $167K | $4.3M |
| 2023 | $299K | $195K | — | — | $150K | $3.8M |
| 2022 | $147K | $203K | — | — | $162K | $3.5M |
| 2021 | $152K | $207K | — | — | $160K | $4M |
| 2020 | -$53K | $202K | — | — | $160K | $3.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $167K to 28 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Victoria Hospice Society$15K
- BC Cancer Foundation$15K
- University of Victoria$12K
- Canadian Rugby Foundation$12K
- Pacific Institute For Sport Excellence Society$10K
- Kidsport BC$10K
- Victoria Therapeutic Riding Association$8,000
- Balfour's Friends Foundation$5,000
- Raincoast Conservation Foundation$5,000
- The Victoria Cool Aid Society$5,000
- The Belfry Theatre Society$5,000
- YMCA - YWCA of Vancouver Island$5,000
- WITS Programs Foundation$5,000
- Victoria Women's Transition House Society$5,000
- Victoria Conservatory of Music$5,000
- Victoria Brain Injury Society$5,000
- Shelbourne Community Kitchen Society$5,000
- Power to Be Adventure Therapy Society$5,000
- Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific and United World Colleges (canada) Inc.$5,000
- The Marie Esther Society$5,000
- Broadmead CARE Society$5,000
- Our Place Society$4,000
- Wounded Warriors Canada$3,000
- Take a Hike Youth Mental Health Foundation$3,000
- Vancouver Island Symphony$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bruce McFarlane (director); Lorne Campbell (director); Charles Burkett (director); Scott Farquhar (director); Evelyn Shaw (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Charlton L Smith Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889858940RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.