Community First Foundation
Charitable organization · North Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 837443233RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,746,062) as filed with the CRA.
Community First Foundation is a charitable organization based in North Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.6M in revenue and $4.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 62% from donations, 8% from government, 22% from other charities. In 2024, 82 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2M.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 38% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1M in 2020 to $4.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Backpack buddies – weekly or bi weekly deliveries of backpacks filled with food to children in need attending elementary schools in the greater vancouver vancouver island and interior bc areas
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.6M | $4.7M | $3.9M | $617K | — | $2.3M |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $3.6M | $3M | $393K | — | $2.4M |
| 2022 | $2.9M | $2.6M | $2.2M | $246K | — | $2.2M |
| 2021 | $3.4M | $2M | $1.7M | $26K | — | $1.9M |
| 2020 | $1M | $815K | $609K | $43K | — | $444K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2M from 82 charities:
- Norgaard Foundation$350K
- The Annual Foundation$180K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$121K
- The Charitable Foundation of the Ontario Grocery Industry$110K
- Canadahelps Canadon$96K
- Canadahelps Canadon$96K
- Walsh Foundation$90K
- Vancouver Foundation$88K
- Krogseth Foundation$75K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$70K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$67K
- The Firstline Foundation$50K
- The Jules Foundation$50K
- Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation$35K
- Aqueduct Foundation$33K
- The Victoria Foundation$30K
- Seedlings Foundation$30K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$27K
- West Vancouver Community Foundation$26K
- Timothy A. Young Family Foundation$25K
- BenefAction Foundation$22K
- C-Fax Santa's Anonymous Society$20K
- Allen & Loreen Van de Kerk Hove Family Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$766K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Geoff Pedlow (chair); Shari Gale (director); Emily-Anne King (vice-president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Community First Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 837443233RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.