Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies
Public foundation · Cranbrook, British Columbia · BN 888751609RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($758,673) as filed with the CRA.
Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies is a public foundation based in Cranbrook, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $801K in revenue and $759K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 47% from other charities. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $549K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 39 qualified donees totalling $598K in 2024, the largest being $230K to Vancouver Foundation.
In its own words
Raising endowment finds to invest and to provide community grants to organizations within the district for the benefit of the community as a whole/
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $801K | $759K | $102K | — | $598K | $663K |
| 2023 | $562K | $624K | $164K | — | $404K | $621K |
| 2022 | $639K | $531K | $175K | — | $301K | $683K |
| 2021 | $695K | $210K | $84K | — | $47K | $4.5M |
| 2020 | $556K | $309K | $162K | — | $67K | $4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- From other charities$380,232
- Investment income$232,893
- Receipted donations$115,780
- Other income$69,479
- Other gifts$2,474
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 $598K to 39 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Vancouver Foundation$230K
- West Kootenay/boundary a I D S Network Outreach Support Society$107K
- Community Connections Society of Southeast BC$73K
- Kootenay Employment Services Society$56K
- Elk Valley Family Society$40K
- Symphony of the Kootenays Association$8,683
- The Board of Education of School District No. 5 (Southeast Kootenay)$8,292
- Friends of Fort Steele Society$6,500
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$5,884
- Blue Lake Forest Education Society$5,758
- Wildsight$4,363
- The Cranbrook Archives Museum and Landmark Foundation$4,107
- Kidsport Canada$4,000
- Cranbrook Food Bank Society$3,331
- East Kootenay Foundation for Health$3,155
- Triangle Womens Institute$3,120
- The Cranbrook and District Arts Council$2,500
- Columbia Basin Environmental Education Network$2,200
- Key City Theatre Society$2,113
- Sparwood Food Bank$2,000
- Living Lakes Canada Society$2,000
- Jaffray Volunteer Fire Department$2,000
- Elk Valley Seniors Housing Society$2,000
- Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History$2,000
- The City of Cranbrook$2,000
Received $549K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$60K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888751609RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.