Wim and Nancy Pauw Foundation
Private foundation · Banff, Alberta · BN 860527381RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,800,279) as filed with the CRA.
Wim and Nancy Pauw Foundation is a private foundation based in Banff, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $25.7M in revenue and $4.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 81% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $85K.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 73% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 23 qualified donees totalling $3.2M in 2024, the largest being $1M to Canadian Rockies Regional School Division # 12. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $9.2M in 2020 to $25.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The goal of the pauw foundation is to reinvest in banff supporting projects that contribute to a more active vibrant and happy community of banff.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $25.7M | $4.8M | $1.4M | — | $3.2M | $62.1M |
| 2023 | $12.5M | $2.9M | $32K | — | $2.6M | $41.2M |
| 2022 | $5.1M | $4.9M | $36K | — | $4.6M | $31.5M |
| 2021 | $11.9M | $1.4M | $41K | — | $1.2M | $31.3M |
| 2020 | $9.2M | $612K | $78K | — | $429K | $20.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.2M to 23 qualified donees:
- Canadian Rockies Regional School Division # 12$1M
- Young Women's Christian Association of Banff$550K
- Town of Banff$412K
- Banff Canmore Community Foundation$263K
- Rocky Mountain Adaptive Sports Centre$155K
- Take Me Outside Fitness and Outdoor Education for Youth$100K
- Stoney Education Authority$100K
- Spirit North$100K
- The Howl Experience$75K
- Homeless Society of the Bow Valley$75K
- The Southern Francophone Education Region$56K
- Bow Valley Connections Centre$45K
- Ralph Connor Memorial United Church$36K
- The Peter & Catharine Whyte Foundation$30K
- Canmore Community Cruiser Bike Share Society$30K
- Town of Canmore$28K
- ST. George's-In-The-Pines Anglican Church of Canada$25K
- Kidsport Bow Valley$25K
- Canadian Mountain Arts Foundation$22K
- The Day CARE Society of Banff$17K
- Alpine Club of Canada$11K
- All One Sky Foundation$3,000
- ST Michael's Anglican Church$1,000
Received $85K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$162K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Wilhelmus Pauw (director); Gordon Lozeman (director); Eric Harvie (director); Sean O'Farrell (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Wim and Nancy Pauw Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 860527381RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.