Community Foundation of Kawartha Lakes
Public foundation · Lindsay, Ontario · BN 734092091RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($581,824) as filed with the CRA.
Community Foundation of Kawartha Lakes is a public foundation based in Lindsay, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $579K in revenue and $582K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 26% from donations, 34% from government, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $310K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 77% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 17 qualified donees totalling $218K in 2024, the largest being $73K to Academy Theatre Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $27K in 2020 to $579K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The grove theatre project is building a community infrastructure space on property owned by the city of kawartha lakes for the purpose of providing theatre programs and community events. The fenelon falls horticultural fund is to fund the education and promotion of gardening as well as activities that take place on public property in the city of kawartha lakes. The fenelon falls community fund and the bobcaygeon community fund is to support the charitable activities in bobcaygeon and area in the city of kawartha lakes. Legacy funds from local families to support scholarships to secondary…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $579K | $582K | $352K | — | $218K | -$69K |
| 2023 | $172K | $301K | $129K | $0 | $63K | -$77K |
| 2022 | $580K | $482K | $302K | — | $93K | $407K |
| 2021 | $662K | $428K | $115K | — | $245K | $261K |
| 2020 | $27K | $7,902 | — | — | — | $19K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $218K to 17 qualified donees:
- Academy Theatre Foundation$73K
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Kawartha Lakes$63K
- A Place Called Home Residence in Lindsay$29K
- Mishkodeh Centre for Indigenous Knowledge Inc.$19K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$10K
- Trillium Lakelands District School Board$6,500
- Fleming College Foundation$4,000
- Ross Memorial Hospital Foundation$3,000
- The Lindsay Gallery$2,000
- Kawartha Lakes Food Source$2,000
- Community Care Foundation (Kawartha Lakes)$2,000
- Corporation of City of Kawartha Lakes$1,226
- United Way Haliburton Kawartha Lakes$1,000
- Women's Resources of Kawartha Lakes$1,000
- Humane Society of Kawartha Lakes$1,000
- Coboconk & Area Food Bank Inc.$1,000
- Globus Theatre Inc.$250
Received $310K from 10 charities:
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
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$95K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nancy Stinson (director); Tina Vanderheyden (director); Michael Bellamy (past president & chair); Glen O Wright (director); Andrew Davidson (director); Mark Knoester (board chair); Adam Hayward (director treasurer); Robert Armstrong (director); Mike Puffer (director); Cathy Gibbs (director); Laurie Dillon-Schalk (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Community Foundation of Kawartha Lakes’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 734092091RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.