The Prince George Community Foundation
Public foundation · Prince George, British Columbia · BN 891160343RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,058,920) as filed with the CRA.
The Prince George Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Prince George, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $4.9M in revenue and $3.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 44% from donations. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 76% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 72 qualified donees totalling $1M in 2024, the largest being $201K to City of Prince George. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2020 to $4.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Members of the community foundation of canada the prince george community foundation facilitates philanthropy by partnering with donors to build permanent endowment funds that support community projects. The foundation offers a unique opportunity to community members to support their local community and to share in shaping their community's future by pooling and investing the charitable gifts of our donors. Gifts and bequests are accumulated in a permanent trust fund managed by a highly skilled team of professionals. Investment income is allocated carefully and responsibly to charitable or…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.9M | $3.1M | $1.9M | $126K | $1M | $11.8M |
| 2023 | $3.3M | $2.1M | $564K | $124K | $1.4M | $10M |
| 2022 | $936K | $1.4M | $383K | — | $859K | $8.7M |
| 2021 | $3.5M | $1.8M | $1.1M | $11K | $560K | $9M |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $881K | $224K | $8,892 | $556K | $7.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1M to 72 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- City of Prince George$201K
- The Community Arts Council of Prince George and District$102K
- Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation$90K
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Prince Rupert$76K
- Citty of Terrace$67K
- Regional District of Fraser Fort George$53K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 91 (Nechako Lakes)$40K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 57 (Prince George)$30K
- Prince George Recycling & Environmental Action & Planning Society (r.e.a.p.s.)$30K
- Hope Air$25K
- Village McBride$20K
- Prince George Symphony Orchestra Society$20K
- Prince George Firefighters Charitable Society$19K
- The DR R.e.m. Lee Hospital Foundation$15K
- The Prince George Sexual Assault Centre Society$15K
- Canadian Mental Health Association of Northern BC$14K
- Prince George Council of Seniors Society$12K
- Physical Literacy for Life$12K
- Village of Fraser Lake$12K
- ST Vincent de Paul Society ST Francis of Assissi Conference Prince George BC$10K
- Method Dance Society$10K
- Huble Homestead/giscome Portage Heritage Society$10K
- University of Northern British Columbia$9,000
- Beacon Foundation$9,000
- The Child Development Centre of Prince George and District Association$8,364
Received $1M from 11 charities:
- Community Foundations of Canada$835K
- Chinook Community Society$150K
- Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Similkameen$15K
- Vancouver Foundation$14K
- Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation$8,100
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,328
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,154
- The Tenaquip Foundation$5,000
- The Board of Education of School District No. 57 (Prince George)$4,183
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$599
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$302K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Philip Foucher (treasurer); Zahid Islam (president); Dolleen Logan (director); Catherine Pennington (past-president); Dave Scouten (director); Simon Yu (director); Rahim Somani (secretary); Corey Naphtali (director); Stephanie Mikalishen-Deol (vice president); Tino Mbara (director); Roberta Stewart (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Prince George Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891160343RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.