Sunset Community Foundation
Public foundation · Grand Bend, Ontario · BN 865368526RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($259,668) as filed with the CRA.
Sunset Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Grand Bend, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $554K in revenue and $260K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $26K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 53% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 78% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 65 qualified donees totalling $163K in 2024, the largest being $10K to United Way of Perth-Huron.
In its own words
The sunset community foundation and its donors strengthen the grand bend/lambton shores community and communities in huron county and north middlesex area community by building and managing permanent endowment funds distributing strategic and effective grants and providing community leadership as a resource and a partner.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $554K | $260K | $67K | $4,814 | $163K | $3.9M |
| 2023 | $862K | $559K | $62K | $4,408 | $471K | $3.6M |
| 2022 | $189K | $591K | $45K | $3,232 | $131K | $3.3M |
| 2021 | $612K | $195K | $53K | $3,762 | $119K | $3.7M |
| 2020 | $601K | $280K | $50K | $3,568 | $209K | $3.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $163K to 65 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- United Way of Perth-Huron$10K
- Drayton Theatres Inc$10K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Huron$10K
- Grand Bend Area Community Health Centre Inc$9,666
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$7,100
- Huron Shores United Church$7,000
- Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation$7,000
- Huron Waves Music Festival$6,000
- Grand Bend Area Community Health Centre Inc$5,800
- Wildlife Preservation Canada/conservation de la Faune au Ca Nada$5,000
- United Way of Perth-Huron$5,000
- Municipality of Lambton Shores$5,000
- Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation$5,000
- Forest Cliff Camps Inc$5,000
- Municipality of Lambton Shores$4,500
- Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation$4,400
- Scouts Canada$4,000
- Municipality of Lambton Shores$4,000
- Municipality of Lambton Shores$3,900
- Ausable Bayfield Conservation Foundation$3,000
- Huron Shores United Church$2,955
- Tanner Steffler Foundation$2,500
- United Way of Perth-Huron$2,500
- Organization for Literacy in Lambton$2,500
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Huron$2,080
Received $26K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$49K
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 Sunset Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 865368526RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.