Thunder Bay Community Foundation
Public foundation · Thunder Bay, Ontario · BN 119264224RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,070,474) as filed with the CRA.
Thunder Bay Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.5M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $50K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 83% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 41 qualified donees totalling $603K in 2024, the largest being $135K to Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra Association Inc.. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Provide scholarships and bursaries which promote educational achievement scientific research provide grants to local not-for-profit agencies and registered charities to promote social welfare activities in the community
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $1.1M | $401K | — | $603K | $17.1M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $1.2M | $373K | — | $774K | $15.7M |
| 2022 | -$378K | $634K | $272K | — | $286K | $14.4M |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $790K | $254K | — | $427K | $15.4M |
| 2020 | $2.4M | $1.5M | $217K | — | $1.2M | $14.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $603K to 41 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra Association Inc.$135K
- Thunder Bay Community Auditorium Inc$80K
- Our Kids Count of Thunder Bay Inc$48K
- Thunder Bay Art Gallery$40K
- Thunder Bay and District Humane Society$31K
- Thunder Bay Boys' and Girls' Club$23K
- Roots to Harvest$19K
- Confederation College$16K
- Regional Food Distribution Association of Northwestern$15K
- Community Arts & Heritage Education Project$14K
- Thunder Bay Food Bank Inc$13K
- Magnus Theatre Company Northwest Incorporated$13K
- ST. Joseph's Foundation of Thunder Bay$12K
- St. Andrew Soup Kitchen Inc.$12K
- Hospice Northwest$12K
- Camp Gitchigomee$10K
- George Jeffrey Children's Foundation$8,683
- ST. John Council for Ontario$8,000
- Lakehead Social Planning Council$7,500
- The Eleanor Drury Children's Theatre$6,130
- Thunder Bay Emergency Shelter Inc.$6,000
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$5,800
- Independent Living Resource Centre Thunder Bay$5,760
- Thunderbird Wildlife Rescue Thunder Bay$5,542
- United Way of Thunder Bay$5,200
Received $50K from 3 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
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$201K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Wendy Bell (trustee); Mike Belliveau (chair); Mike Larizza (trustee); Pat Meredith (treasurer); Ann Leblanc (trustee); Jack Jamieson (trustee); Mary Nucci (trustee); Terri Hrkac (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Thunder Bay Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119264224RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.