Westshore Community Foundation Inc.
Public foundation · Gimli, Manitoba · BN 887517332RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($363,806) as filed with the CRA.
Westshore Community Foundation Inc. is a public foundation based in Gimli, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $364K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $28K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 36% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 77% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 23 qualified donees totalling $179K in 2024, the largest being $80K to New Iceland Heritage Museum. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $2M in 2020 to $1.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Providing grants to registered charities and other qualified donees providing scholarships & bursaries to deserving students
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $364K | $113K | $11K | $181K | $6.5M |
| 2023 | $923K | $517K | $91K | $22K | $340K | $5.8M |
| 2022 | $998K | $294K | $87K | $17K | $166K | $5.4M |
| 2021 | $687K | $295K | $31K | $12K | $144K | $5.4M |
| 2020 | $2M | $330K | $22K | $626 | $213K | $4.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $179K to 23 qualified donees:
- New Iceland Heritage Museum$80K
- RM of Bifrost Riverton$17K
- Betel Heritage Foundation$10K
- RM of Gimli$9,719
- Icelandic Festival of Manitoba$8,256
- Evergreen Basic Needs$7,757
- Madeline's Closet Inc.$5,000
- Gimli International Film Festival$4,398
- Interlake Women's Resource Centre$4,064
- Ukrainian Orthodox Catholic Church Summer Camp$4,000
- Camp Massad of Manitoba$4,000
- Gimli Lutheran Church$3,296
- Riverton Day Care Cooperative$3,000
- Town of Winnipeg Beach$3,000
- Our Lady of the Lake Church$2,676
- Gimli Children's Centre$2,500
- Icelandic River Heritage Society$2,500
- Riverton and District Friendship Centre$2,000
- RM of St. Andrews$1,800
- Gimli Icelandic Canadian Society$1,600
- Interlake Eastern Regional Health Authority$1,060
- Betel Home Foundation$900
- Gimli Glider Museum$612
Received $28K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$26K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Randy Baldwin (teasurer- director); Darlene Devlin (director); David Douglas (president- director); Donald Matthewson (director); Teri Nicholson (director); Eric Stefanson (director); Tristin Tergesen (director); Patti McIntyre (director); Douglas Anderson (director); Romanna Klymkiw (director); Donna Roed (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Westshore Community Foundation Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887517332RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.