Cortes Island Community Foundation
Charitable organization · Mansons Landing, British Columbia · BN 781957113RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,414,264) as filed with the CRA.
Cortes Island Community Foundation is a charitable organization based in Mansons Landing, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 10% from government, 82% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4.2M.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $40K in 2021 to $1.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The cortes island community foundation facilitates strategic gifting & and support of cortes island needs and priority projects including educational social health environmental and innovative community programs of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $1M | $12K | — | $620K |
| 2023 | $892K | $461K | $238K | $1,561 | $162K | $80K |
| 2022 | $392K | $144K | $79K | — | — | $215K |
| 2021 | $40K | $51K | $32K | — | $15K | $14K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4.2M from 11 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$3.6M
- Community Foundations of Canada$332K
- Makeway Foundation$112K
- Spevakow Family Foundation Inc.$74K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$64K
- Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank Society$14K
- The Illahie Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,204
- The Victoria Foundation$4,200
- The Hamber Foundation$3,000
- Decoda Literacy Foundation$700
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
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$233K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mark Spevakow (co-chair); Christopher Flek (director); Christina Macwilliam (co-chair); Kathleen Maddigan (director); Daryl Novak (director); Desta Beattie (director); John Finlay (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cortes Island Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 781957113RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.