Saanich Peninsula Community Foundation
Public foundation · Sidney, British Columbia · BN 802445312RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($51,048) as filed with the CRA.
Saanich Peninsula Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Sidney, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $219K in revenue and $51K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations, 81% from other charities. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $32K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 28% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 15 qualified donees totalling $37K in 2024, the largest being $3,000 to Tsawout First Nation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $18K in 2020 to $219K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The foundation maintains a permanent endowment fund (the majority of the fund is maintained at the victoria foundation and the vancouver foundation) and annually makes grants from the investment earnings of the endowment fund to charitable organizations ont he saanich peninsula.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $219K | $51K | — | — | $37K | $216K |
| 2023 | $57K | $32K | $567 | — | $22K | $48K |
| 2022 | $42K | $38K | — | — | $24K | $24K |
| 2021 | $35K | $33K | $1,000 | — | $20K | $19K |
| 2020 | $18K | $14K | — | — | — | $17K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $37K to 15 qualified donees:
- Tsawout First Nation$3,000
- Shoreline Medical Society$3,000
- Saanich Inlet Lifeboat Society$3,000
- Seachange Marine Conservation Society$3,000
- Raincoast Conservation Foundation$3,000
- Mount Newton Centre Society$3,000
- Ocean Ambassadors Canada$2,983
- Broadmead Care Society$2,970
- Saanich Marine Rescue Society$2,800
- British Columbia Aviation Museum$2,500
- Victoria Therapeutic Riding Association$2,000
- Sidney Museum and Archives Society$2,000
- Help Fill a Dream Foundation$2,000
- Cycling Without Age Society$1,557
- The Countryside Preschool$625
Received $32K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Timothy Maloney (chair); Elaine Hughesman (treasurer); Doug Guedes (director); Debbie Sherwood (director); Deborah Rogers (director); Darryl Couzens (director); Susan Simosko Debling (director); Ian Brown (director); Janis Jean (director); Julie Coward (director); Charles Long (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Saanich Peninsula Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 802445312RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.