Elgin-ST. Thomas Community Foundation
Public foundation · ST Thomas, Ontario · BN 865337109RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,170,904) as filed with the CRA.
Elgin-ST. Thomas Community Foundation is a public foundation based in ST Thomas, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 62% from donations. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $81K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 80% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 87% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 71 qualified donees totalling $761K in 2024, the largest being $200K to ST. Thomas Elgin General Hospital Foundation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $7.7M in 2020 to $1.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Elgin-st. Thomas community foundation's mission is to strenthen the community for the benefit of all by fostering growth of community philanthropy; giving business opportunities to benefactors to leave a lasting legacy for the future generations; building and prudently managing community endowments; and addressing the needs of the community through strategic grant making and organizational support
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.2M | $365K | $29K | $778K | $11.4M |
| 2023 | $966K | $1.3M | $168K | $22K | $976K | $11M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $2.4M | $239K | $21K | $2.2M | $11.3M |
| 2021 | $2.3M | $757K | $133K | $23K | $539K | $12.6M |
| 2020 | $7.7M | $1.8M | $122K | $30K | $1.6M | $11.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$917,674
- Investment income$542,367
- Other gifts$106,239
- From other charities$63,215
- Other income$13,495
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 $761K to 71 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- ST. Thomas Elgin General Hospital Foundation$200K
- Elgin Residential Hospice$101K
- Elgin-ST. Thomas Community Foundation$59K
- Municipality of Central Elgin$57K
- STEAM Education Centres Incorporated$42K
- Corporation of the City of ST Thomas$39K
- North America Railway Hall of Fame$21K
- Boots on the Ground Peer Support for First Responders$17K
- Victim Services Elgin$17K
- Big Brothers/big Sisters of ST. Thomas - Elgin$14K
- ST. Thomas-Elgin Youth and Employment Services$13K
- Thames Talbot Land Trust$13K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$13K
- Elgin County Railway Museum Inc$12K
- Municipality of Dutton Dunwich$11K
- Boots on the Ground Peer Support for First Responders$7,500
- Animal Aide Association of ST. Thomas-Elgin$7,100
- Ecojustice Canada Society$6,900
- St. Thomas Elgin Food Bank$6,500
- World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial pour la Nature Can Ada$6,400
- Wildlife Preservation Canada/conservation de la Faune au Ca Nada$6,400
- Nature Canada / Canada Nature$6,400
- Three Oaks Cabin$6,000
- Neighbourhood Outreach for Kids (elgin)$5,000
- ST Thomas-Elgin Christmas CARE$4,900
Received $81K from 8 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
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$140K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Hilary Vaughan (director); Scott Willoughby (chair); Brian Bolt (director); Janet Taylor (director); Jeff Shaw (vice-chair); Michael Broadhead (treasurer); Kimberly Robinson (secretary); Bilal Khalife (director); Jay Futcher (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Elgin-ST. Thomas Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 865337109RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.