FUNDING UPDATE
NEW: VITAL PEOPLE/VITAL CAUSES
2024 REPORT: OUT NOW!

Each year, the Foundation awards grants to local Sunshine Coast charities through the Responsive Community Grants stream.

Help us contribute to the quality of life on the Sunshine Coast by building endowments, making strategic grants, and inspiring community leadership. 

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Vital Signs is a national program that leverages local knowledge to measure the vitality of our communities and support action towards improving our collective quality of life.

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More than $3 Million in grants awarded to local charities

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Over $359,000 granted to the community in 2023

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44 grants awarded to 19 organizations in 2023

Who We Are

Sunshine Coast Foundation provides stable and sustainable financial support to charitable organizations from Port Mellon to Egmont. We offer donors the opportunity to increase their impact by pooling the gifts we receive and carefully investing them. Each year, we use the earnings on our investments to provide funding to local charities. We help to connect donors with the causes that inspire them and the charities that are having the greatest positive impact. Our Vital Signs program compiles current and relevant research to help local organizations and decision-makers understand the issues and trends facing our Sunshine Coast community.

Established Endowments

The Sunshine Coast Foundation stewards over 85 permanent funds, the capital of which is permanently invested, and the earnings from which support annual grants to local charities. Anyone may make a donation to any of the Foundation’s permanent funds. Please visit our donations page or call the Foundation office at 604.741.7360.

Vital Signs

Vital Signs is a national program led by community foundations and coordinated by Community Foundations of Canada. It leverages local knowledge to measure the vitality of our communities and support action towards improving our collective quality of life. Vital Signs reports are snapshots of our community that present our challenges and celebrate our accomplishments.

Latest News

  • Since the launch of Vital Signs 2024 in June, we have proudly presented six editions of Vital People/Vital Causes. We look forward to sharing more key data and themes from our report with you in 2025! Vital Cause: Quality of life on the Coast Among...

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Our News

  • Since the launch of Vital Signs 2024 in June, we have proudly presented six editions of Vital People/Vital Causes. We look forward to sharing more key data and themes from our report with you in 2025!...

  •   A spike in the region’s cost of living has led the Sunshine Coast’s living wage to rise to $26.42 per hour in 2024, a 3.16 per cent increase from last year’s rate of $25.61, the 2024 Living Wag...

  • The Sunshine Coast Foundation will be offering grants of up to $40,000 to local organizations that contribute to community prosperity. The program will be called the Sunshine Coast Prosperity Fund, an...

  • Thank you to everyone who entered the Coasties Contest! We were on a mission to discover the heartbeat of our community, and so many Coasters answered our call. The time and effort poured into craftin...

  • Drawing on key data and themes from our Vital Signs 2024 report, we will present a new Vital People/Vital Causes online and in the Coast Reporter on the first Friday of every month. Vital Cause: Our V...

  • Cast and crew from the July performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream reunited at the Rockwood Pavilion in Sechelt for a ceremony to hand over the production’s financial proceeds to its chief benefici...

Thank you to our community of donors, sponsors and funders!

We would not be able to undertake our mission without your generous contributions.

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