Sovereign Order of ST. John Victoria Commandery Foundation
Public foundation · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 835901471RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($840,484) as filed with the CRA.
Sovereign Order of ST. John Victoria Commandery 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 $801K in revenue and $840K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from donations. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $680K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 100% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 60 qualified donees totalling $840K in 2024, the largest being $50K to Saanich Neighbourhood Place. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $115K in 2020 to $801K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Providing aid to the sick and the poor - with total charitable disbursements of $851 121 for 2024
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $801K | $840K | $851K | — | $840K | $3,063 |
| 2023 | $436K | $512K | $512K | — | $512K | $54K |
| 2022 | $311K | $353K | $152 | — | $353K | $128K |
| 2021 | $115K | $63K | $3,760 | — | $59K | $143K |
| 2020 | $115K | $141K | $3,262 | — | $137K | $90K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $840K to 60 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Saanich Neighbourhood Place$50K
- Society of St. Vincent De Paul of Vancouver Island$45K
- Our Place Society$37K
- Victoria Native Friendship Centre$35K
- The Victoria Cool Aid Society$32K
- Victoria Rainbow Kitchen Society$30K
- Victoria Community Food Hub Society$30K
- Shelbourne Community Kitchen Society$30K
- Nourish Cowichan Society$30K
- Cowichan Valley Basket Society$30K
- Victoria Women's Transition House Society$25K
- Serving Soup to the Hungry$25K
- Umbrella Society for Addictions and Mental Health$20K
- Threshold Housing Society$20K
- Sooke Food Bank Society$20K
- Goldstream Food Bank Society$20K
- Community First Foundation$20K
- Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia$18K
- James Bay New Horizons Society$15K
- Vancouver Island Kids Klub Centre Society$15K
- The Victoria Youth Empowerment Society$15K
- Living Edge Community Church$15K
- The John Howard Society of Victoria$15K
- Cobble Hill-MILL Bay-Shawnigan Lake Food Bank Society$15K
- Vancouver Island Health Authority$12K
Received $680K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bernard Beck (director); Frank Bouree; Richard Crow (director); Maria Dominelli (director); Gordon Gunn (director); Angus Izard (receiver general); Parker Maccarthy; Lori McLeod (director); Robert Peterson; Margaret Rose; Christine Ryan.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sovereign Order of ST. John Victoria Commandery Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 835901471RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.