Columbia Valley Community Foundation
Public foundation · Invermere, British Columbia · BN 882618713RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($712,152) as filed with the CRA.
Columbia Valley Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Invermere, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $712K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $661K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 96% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 22 qualified donees totalling $193K in 2024, the largest being $92K to Windermere Valley Youth Centre. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $744K in 2020 to $1.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The columbia valley foundation achieved registered charity status in 2001. Our purpose and mandate is to fund facilitate promote and carry out activities which improve the quality of life for columbia valley residents. We are an endowment-based organization and directs two main streams of granting annually. First the foundation adjudicates and administrates student awards which support higher education for the youth of the columbia valley. Second community grants are awarded annually and these serve to connect donor generosity to the areas of greatest need in our community.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $712K | $318K | $332 | $358K | $7.1M |
| 2023 | $979K | $565K | $179K | $24K | $332K | $6.6M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $422K | $168K | — | $197K | $6.2M |
| 2021 | $711K | $409K | $190K | — | $181K | $5.2M |
| 2020 | $744K | $460K | $93K | — | $328K | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $193K to 22 qualified donees:
- Windermere Valley Youth Centre$92K
- East Kootenay Addiction Services Society$15K
- Columbia Valley Food Bank$11K
- Hospice Society of the Columbia Valley$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,750
- Friends of the Invermere Public Library$9,337
- The Board of Education of School District No. 6 (Rocky Mountain)$7,300
- Living Lakes Canada Society$5,000
- Christmas Bureau of the Columbia Valley$5,000
- Edgewater Recreation Society$4,080
- Columbia Valley Housing Society$3,500
- Family Dynamix Association$3,432
- Lake Windermere Ambassadors Society$3,000
- Columbia Valley Search and Rescue$3,000
- The B.C. Wildlife Federation$3,000
- Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network$2,191
- Invermere Film Festival$2,000
- Columbia Valley Arts Council$1,406
- Radium Hot Springs Public Library$1,029
- Wildsight$1,000
- Columbia Lake Stewardship Society$460
- Columbia Valley Greenways Trail Alliance$271
Received $661K from 16 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$291K
- Community Foundations of Canada$166K
- The Calgary Foundation$75K
- United Way British Columbia$65K
- Wings Over the Rockies Nature Festival Society$26K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$11K
- Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Similkameen$11K
- Viewpoint Foundation$5,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$4,500
- Lake Windermere Ambassadors Society$2,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,486
- Columbia House Enhancement Society$1,250
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,176
- Friends of the Invermere Public Library$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$236
- Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network$225
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$67K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Wendy Booth (chair & director); Laura Cuthbertson (director); Kelsey Eade (director); John 'lang' Ellison (vice-chair & director); Barbara Kloos (secretary & director); Sue Kristiansen (director); Andra Louie (director); Lawrie Mack (director); Jenny Manhas (treasurer & director); Quintin Randall (director); Sheena Swierenga (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Columbia Valley Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 882618713RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.