Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation
Public foundation · Stratford, Ontario · BN 884884305RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($761,241) as filed with the CRA.
Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Stratford, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2M in revenue and $761K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 35% from donations. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $113K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 74 qualified donees totalling $308K in 2024, the largest being $21K to The Dollywood Foundation of Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation (Community Foundation) facilitates philanthropy and provides gifts and resources to community service organizations delivering vital programs and services to the residents in Stratford St. Marys and Perth County. Applications for funding are accepted and evaluated to Board-approved criteria with gifts made to charitable organizations and qualified donees. The Community Foundation funds a broad range of vital organizations without discrimination to deliver programs and services to enhance social services; support health and wellness programs…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2M | $761K | $106K | $53K | $308K | $10.6M |
| 2023 | $1.9M | $1.1M | $79K | $93K | $701K | $9.4M |
| 2022 | $589K | $849K | $67K | $63K | $525K | $8.5M |
| 2021 | $3.8M | $621K | $70K | $66K | $336K | $8.8M |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $849K | $69K | $91K | $549K | $5.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $308K to 74 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Dollywood Foundation of Canada$21K
- Avon Maitland District School Board$21K
- Foundation for Enriching Education Perth Huron$15K
- Maitland Valley Conservation Authority$12K
- Upper Thames River Conservation Authority$11K
- United Way of Perth-Huron$10K
- The Corporation of the City of Stratford$10K
- Huron-Perth Catholic District School Board$10K
- Municipality of North Perth$9,800
- Out of the Ashes Large Animal Rescue (OALAR)$9,000
- Brain Injury Association of London and Region$8,750
- L'Arche (stratford)$8,500
- YMCA of Three Rivers (midwestern Ontario)$8,000
- The Corporation of the City of Stratford$7,500
- Huron County Food Bank Distribution Centre Inc$7,500
- Avon Maitland District School Board$7,300
- Board of Health for the Huron Perth Health Unit$7,000
- The Kiwanis Club of Stratford Charitable Foundation$6,000
- Camp Bimini$6,000
- Foundation for Enriching Education Perth Huron$6,000
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada/conseil de Direction de l'Armée du Salut du Canada$5,835
- Emily Murphy Second Stage Residences$5,000
- Scientists in School$5,000
- Town of ST. Marys$4,500
- Listowel District Senior Citizen's Complex$4,500
Received $113K from 6 charities:
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
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$182K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mae Brooks (past chair); Lisa McClelland (director); Brent Shackleton (director); Marcel van Hulle (chair); Roy Norton (secretary); Paul West (director); Rob Steinbach (treasurer); Sylvia Chrominska (vice chair); Lee Anne Andriessen (director); Don Hathaway (director); Debb Ritchie (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 884884305RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.