Power to Give Foundation
Public foundation · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 806276721RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,859,142) as filed with the CRA.
Power to Give Foundation is a public foundation based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.9M in revenue and $2.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 77% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.8M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 93% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 33 qualified donees totalling $907K in 2024, the largest being $255K to Washington Kids Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.4M in 2020 to $2.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
The foundation supports children`s health and the environment by providing funding to canadian registered charities and intermediaires. It also holds an annual retreat to educate and support other charities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.9M | $2.9M | $290K | $490K | $907K | $33K |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $2.2M | $121K | $216K | $971K | -$43K |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $2.7M | $543K | $322K | $1.4M | $86K |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $225K | — | $797K | $184K |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.2M | $251K | — | $624K | $189K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $907K to 33 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Washington Kids Foundation$255K
- Pacific Wild Alliance$195K
- VGH & Ubc Hospital Foundation$50K
- Physical Literaly for Life$50K
- Kidsport Canada$40K
- VGH & Ubc Hospital Foundation$40K
- The Amp Legacy Foundation of Canada$40K
- Trades Guild$25K
- Trades Guild$25K
- Lil E Coffee Café (Calgary)$20K
- Stigma-Free Mental Health Society$15K
- Ahousaht Nrion$15K
- West Coast Multiplex Society$12K
- Makeway Charitable Society$11K
- Pain BC Society$10K
- Cedar Coast Field Station Society$10K
- Physical Literacy for Life$10K
- Assembly of Seven Generation A7g$10K
- Alberni District Secondary School SD 70$10K
- Weredale Foundation$10K
- Bulkley Valley Youth Sport Foundation$7,500
- York Factory First Nation$7,000
- Human-Nature Counselling Society$6,675
- The Victoria Foundation$5,195
- Right To Food$5,000
Received $1.8M from 15 charities:
- The Annual Foundation$1.3M
- Canucks for Kids Fund$175K
- Temerty Foundation$70K
- Michelle O'Reilly Foundation$50K
- Arrell Family Foundation$50K
- Ihnatowycz Family Foundation$35K
- Toronto Foundation$30K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$25K
- Nelson Arthur Hyland Foundation$20K
- Chan Family Foundation$20K
- The Quinn Family Future Foundation$16K
- The Brian and Joannah Lawson Family Foundation$15K
- Trails Charitable Foundation$10K
- Vancouver Foundation$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,410
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$871K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tim Cormode (executive director); Lindsay Hall (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Power to Give Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 806276721RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.