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.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Investment income$739,506
- Receipted donations$246,285
- Other income$154,406
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
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.