Shuswap Community Foundation
Public foundation · Salmon Arm, British Columbia · BN 887836468RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,153,672) as filed with the CRA.
Shuswap Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $4.4M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 41% from donations, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $526K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 38% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 82 qualified donees totalling $1.6M in 2024, the largest being $790K to North Shuswap Disaster Relief Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $4.4M in 2024.
In its own words
Shuswap community foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of people in shuswap. We bring together the financial resources of individuals families and businesses to support organizations that benefit our communities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.4M | $2.2M | $192K | — | $1.6M | $17.4M |
| 2023 | $5.6M | $1.5M | $147K | — | $1.1M | $15.1M |
| 2022 | -$521K | $901K | $125K | — | $494K | $11M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $753K | $131K | — | $427K | $12.3M |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $609K | $110K | — | $313K | $10.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.6M to 82 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- North Shuswap Disaster Relief Society$790K
- Community Futures Shuswap$89K
- British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$87K
- School District No. 83 (Kwsaltktnéws ne Secwepemcul'ecw)$57K
- Shuswap District Arts Council$40K
- Salmon Arm College Scholarship Fund$36K
- Salmon Arm 2024 55+ BC Games Society$30K
- Literacy Alliance of the Shuswap Society$26K
- The Kamloops Wildlife Park Society$26K
- Shuswap Creative Makerspace Society$25K
- Salmon Arm Museum and Heritage Association$21K
- City of Salmon Arm$17K
- Shuswap Association for Community Living$16K
- Shuswap Hospital Foundation$16K
- Shuswap Family Resource and Referral Society$14K
- Salmar Community Organization$14K
- Shuswap Hospice Society$13K
- Shuswap Hut and Trail Alliance Society$13K
- Shuswap Area Family Emergency Society$9,583
- Salmon Arm Minor Hockey$9,000
- Shuswap Theatre Society$8,977
- Canadian Mental Health Association Shuswap/revelstoke Branch$8,095
- Okanagan College Foundation$7,761
- Eagle Bay Community Association$7,608
- Sicamous Eagles JR. B Hockey Club$7,500
Received $526K from 14 charities:
- Community Foundations of Canada$276K
- Canadahelps Canadon$63K
- Canadahelps Canadon$63K
- Vancouver Foundation$62K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$16K
- Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Similkameen$15K
- Abundance Canada$10K
- Shuswap Community Foundation$6,352
- Wesmont Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- The Read Family Foundation$5,000
- ST. Andrew's Presbyterian Church$368
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$57
- ATCO Electric Epic$36
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$131K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Shuswap Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887836468RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.