Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough
Public foundation · Peterborough, Ontario · BN 876232315RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,354,587) as filed with the CRA.
Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough is a public foundation based in Peterborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.7M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 29% from other charities. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $772K.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 45% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 57 qualified donees totalling $859K in 2024, the largest being $85K to One City Community Development Services. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The community foundation of greater peterborough strengthens the environmental social and cultural sustainability of our community through charitable means. We do this by inspiring giving making grants building and maintaining funds providing philanthropic services supporting the fundraising and volunteering capacity of local charities and fostering reconciliation with indigenous peoples. In 2024 the community foundation's charitable activities were grantmaking and capacity building activities. Grants were made thanks to generous community donors and from the earnings on invested asse…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $1.4M | $268K | $55K | $859K | $15M |
| 2023 | $3.4M | $1.8M | $247K | $42K | $1.4M | $13.7M |
| 2022 | -$186K | $967K | $190K | $30K | $613K | $12.1M |
| 2021 | $2.9M | $1.6M | $180K | $30K | $1.3M | $13.3M |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $1.9M | $215K | $76K | $1.5M | $12M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $859K to 57 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- One City Community Development Services$85K
- Youth Emergency Shelter of Peterborough Incorporated$72K
- New Canadians Centre-Peterborough$62K
- YWCA Peterborough Haliburton$51K
- Telecare Distress Centre of Peterborough Inc.$50K
- Kawartha Land Trust$46K
- Kawartha Youth Orchestra$44K
- The Otonabee Region Conservation Authority$40K
- Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre$32K
- Peterborough Green-Up Association$30K
- Peterborough AIDS Resource Network$28K
- Trent University$25K
- Path (peterborough Action for Tiny Homes)$25K
- Kawartha World Issues Centre$24K
- The Elizabeth Fry Society of Peterborough$20K
- Four Counties Addiction Services Team Inc$18K
- Peterborough Artists Inc.$15K
- Camp Kawartha Incorporated$14K
- ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival$13K
- Heads up for Inclusion$13K
- Good Neighbours CARE Centre of Peterborough Corporation$12K
- Nogojiwanong Friendship Centre$11K
- Haliburton Kawartha Northumberland Peterborough Health Unit$10K
- Peterborough County Childrens Choir$10K
- Peterborough Historical Society$9,700
Received $772K from 8 charities:
- Trinity United Church Peterborough Trust Estate of William George Morrow Deceased$403K
- Community Foundations of Canada$207K
- Canadahelps Canadon$73K
- Canadahelps Canadon$73K
- Kymar Foundation$10K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$2,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,400
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$972
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$246K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Graham Culp (director); Marie Dietrich (treasurer & secretary); Trish Dillabough (director); Camila Duarte (director); Jennifer Harrington (chair); Genevieve Lavallee (vice-chair); Kathy Green (director); Victoria Van Veen (director); Rachel Degreef (director); Suzanne Galloway (director); Cody McMahon (director); Thomas Street (director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 876232315RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.