The Western Communities Foundation
Private foundation · High River, Alberta · BN 870302619RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($749,947) as filed with the CRA.
The Western Communities Foundation is a private foundation based in High River, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $795K in revenue and $750K in expenditures.
In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1,641.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 63% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 90% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 164 qualified donees totalling $637K in 2024, the largest being $110K to Canadahelps Canadon. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $487K in 2020 to $795K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
1. Western inspirational award - a $750 award for a graduating high school student who is an inspiration to their school and or community. Includes indigenous specific awards. 2. Infrastructure grant - foundation gives $5000 to community for infrastructure need within community includes: indigenous projects association of manitoba municipalities and needs with communities identified by western employee locations. 3. Board identified emergency crises - western will donate amount with approval of the board. These funds may or may not matched by western financial group business. 4. Hero program…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $795K | $750K | — | $36K | $699K | $453K |
| 2023 | $512K | $702K | — | $65K | $620K | $408K |
| 2022 | $527K | $474K | — | — | $347K | $598K |
| 2021 | $440K | $344K | — | — | $244K | $545K |
| 2020 | $487K | $352K | — | — | $272K | $449K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$14,276
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
Granted $637K to 164 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Canadahelps Canadon$110K
- United Way of Winnipeg$33K
- United Way of Winnipeg$32K
- United Way of Winnipeg$31K
- United Way of Winnipeg$31K
- Jasper Community Team Society$20K
- High River Food for Thought Ltd.$8,653
- Lloydminster Region Health Foundation Inc.$5,919
- RM of Gilbert Plains | Nimble Thimble Quilt Club$5,135
- Harvest Manitoba Inc.$5,134
- D'Arcy's A.r.c. Inc.$5,134
- Vancouver Island Mental Health Society$5,000
- Town of Willow Bunch$5,000
- Town of Vegreville$5,000
- Town of Strathmore$5,000
- Town of Drumheller$5,000
- Town of Bassano$5,000
- Town of Barrhead$5,000
- The Corporation of the City of Cranbrook$5,000
- British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$5,000
- Terrace Public Library Association$5,000
- Surrey Public Library$5,000
- Saanich Neighbourhood Place$5,000
- Rural Municipality of Victoria$5,000
- Rural Municipality of Brenda$5,000
Received $1,641 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nancy Green-Bolton (chairman); Kristy Rachkowski (vice president); Craig Kozlowski (vice president); Jonathan Hoey (secretary-treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Western Communities Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 870302619RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.