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.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Investment income$124,735
- Other income$10,255
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 $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.