The Yellowknife Community Foundation
Public foundation · Yellowknife, Northwest Territories · BN 889101978RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($625,576) as filed with the CRA.
The Yellowknife Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $626K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 47% from donations. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $100K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 19 qualified donees totalling $229K in 2024, the largest being $25K to YWCA NWT. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $622K in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The yellowknife community foundation solicits and receives endowment funds we provide grants to qualified donees who provide a broad range of community services we provide student awards to qualified individuals we receive flow-trough funds from donors and various levels of governments and other charities we educate and inspire the public about philanthropy and we improve the effectiveness of qualified donees through community development efforts
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $626K | $221K | $57K | $229K | $8.2M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $833K | $226K | $50K | $443K | $7.5M |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $397K | $133K | $41K | $111K | $7.1M |
| 2021 | $828K | $542K | $281K | $70K | $99K | $5.9M |
| 2020 | $622K | $951K | $700K | $70K | — | $5.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $229K to 19 qualified donees:
- YWCA NWT$25K
- Dechinta Initiatives$20K
- Northern Arts and Cultural Centre$17K
- West Point First Nation$15K
- Ka'A'gee Tu First Nation$15K
- Charter Community of K'Asho Got'ine$15K
- Pinnguaq Foundation$15K
- Habitat for Humanity Northwest Territories$15K
- Makeway Charitable Society$15K
- Yellowknife Women's Society$13K
- Behchoko (rae-Edzo)$13K
- The Soup Kitchen$12K
- Yellowknife Historical Society$10K
- The Yellowknife Seniors Society$9,625
- Ecology North$7,350
- Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories$5,200
- Avens-A Community for Seniors$3,000
- Northern Mosaic Network$2,500
- Equal Voice Foundation$2,000
Received $100K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$154K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robin Greig (past chair); Roman Asumdson (secretary-treasurer); Victoria(laurie) Gault (chair); Marta Moir (director); Megan Holsapple (director); Lana De Bastiani (director); Patrick Wigglesworth (director); Sara Brown (director/vice chair); Stephen Dunbar (director); Meaghan Brackenbury (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Yellowknife Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889101978RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.