Creston Valley Community Foundation
Public foundation · Creston, British Columbia · BN 867050528RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($368,424) as filed with the CRA.
Creston Valley Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Creston, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $714K in revenue and $368K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 43% from donations, 24% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $297K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 21 qualified donees totalling $330K in 2024, the largest being $141K to Creston Valley Community Housing Society. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $714K in 2024.
In its own words
Qualifying disbursements that we make through gifts to qualified donees whose work improves the quality of life for the members of our community.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $714K | $368K | — | — | $330K | $6.3M |
| 2023 | $512K | $445K | — | — | $361K | $6M |
| 2022 | $42K | $130K | — | — | $111K | $5.6M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $160K | — | — | $148K | $5.7M |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $147K | — | — | $138K | $4.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $330K to 21 qualified donees:
- Creston Valley Community Housing Society$141K
- Valley Community Services Society$60K
- The Nature Trust of British Columbia$50K
- Trails for Creston Valley Society$12K
- United Way British Columbia$9,298
- Creston Pet Adoption and Welfare Society$7,735
- Town of Creston - Creston Valley Seniors Association$6,660
- Creston Valley Hospice Society$6,481
- Trinity United Church$6,000
- Starbelly Jam Society$5,000
- Kootenay-Columbia Discovery Centre Society$5,000
- Creston Valley Society for Therapeutic Horsemanship$3,375
- Creston and District Historical and Museum Society$3,000
- College of the Rockies$3,000
- The Board of Education of School District No. 8 (Kootenay Lake)$2,200
- Creston Public Library Association$2,200
- Wildsight (creston)$2,048
- Boswell and District Emergency Volunteers$2,000
- Selkirk College Foundation$1,000
- Eastshore Community Library Society$925
- Creston Ministerial Association$800
Received $297K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Creston Valley Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 867050528RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.