Parksville - Qualicum Community Foundation
Public foundation · Qualicum Beach, British Columbia · BN 870059334RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($480,954) as filed with the CRA.
Parksville - Qualicum Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.3M in revenue and $481K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 78% from donations, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $559K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 81% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 44 qualified donees totalling $419K in 2024, the largest being $59K to Vancouver Island University Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $573K in 2020 to $5.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Grants to local registered charities neighbourhood small grants to individuals
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.3M | $481K | $52K | — | $419K | $9.4M |
| 2023 | $563K | $199K | $60K | — | $138K | $4.6M |
| 2022 | $319K | $818K | $680K | — | $137K | $4.3M |
| 2021 | $701K | $161K | $52K | — | $109K | $4.8M |
| 2020 | $573K | $345K | $44K | — | $301K | $4.2M |
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$4,102,614
- Other income$586,866
- From other charities$562,621
- Investment income$3,017
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 $419K to 44 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Vancouver Island University Foundation$59K
- Oceanside Community Arts Council$23K
- District 69 Society of Organized Services$23K
- Bradley Community Centre Association$21K
- Parksville & District Historical Society$19K
- Nanoose Community Services Association$19K
- Wonderful World of Books$19K
- Manna Homeless Society$19K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 69 (Qualicum)$18K
- Forward House Community Society$17K
- Parksville Pastoral Charge$15K
- Oceanside Hospice Society$15K
- Oceanside Classical Concerts Society$15K
- Christ's Church Oceanside$14K
- Qualicum First Nations$13K
- The Nature Trust of British Columbia$11K
- The University of British Columbia$11K
- Oceanside Hospice Society$10K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$8,600
- Vancouver Island University$8,200
- Arrowsmith Agricultural Association$8,000
- St.Stephen's United Church Qualicum Beach$6,500
- Balfour's Friends Foundation$5,400
- The Old School House Arts Centre$5,056
- Vancouver Island Symphony$4,000
Received $559K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$21K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brent Johnson (treasurer); Susanna Newton (director); Pat Weber (past chair); Kari-Lee Burnham (director/bookkeeper); Robert Duncan (president); Betty Price (secretary); Denise Foster (director); Peter Van Dongen (vice chair); Kari Knutson (director); Terri Duguay (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Parksville - Qualicum Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 870059334RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.