The Jack & Darlene Poole Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 835765025RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($516,254) as filed with the CRA.
The Jack & Darlene Poole Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $516K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 22% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 88% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $513K in 2024, the largest being $350K to British Columbia Professional Fire Fighters' Burn Fund. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $6M in 2020 to $1.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Donations to other organizations that are qualified donees
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $516K | — | — | $513K | $18.1M |
| 2023 | $574K | $1.3M | — | — | $1.3M | $17.4M |
| 2022 | $14.7M | $4.9M | — | — | $4.9M | $18.2M |
| 2021 | $10.2M | $2.6M | — | — | $2.6M | $8.4M |
| 2020 | $6M | $5.6M | — | — | $5.6M | $777K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $513K to 4 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Darlene Poole (chair & secretary); Peter Lewis (treasurer); Deborah Prior (director); David Podmore (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Jack & Darlene Poole Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 835765025RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.