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.
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.