Each year, the Foundation awards more than $165,000 in grants to local Sunshine Coast charities. Several granting streams match different organizational needs.
The Sunshine Coast Foundation is stepping up to help local efforts to address the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis with the Sunshine Coast COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund.
Help us contribute to the quality of life on the Sunshine Coast by building endowments, making strategic grants, and inspiring community leadership.
$1.5 Million in funding awarded to local charities
105 local organizations supported with grants
$130,000 distributed through COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund
187 projects supported in 2019 and 2020
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.
The Sunshine Coast Foundation stewards more than 60 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 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.
We would not be able to undertake our mission without the generous support of hundreds of individual donors. To them we say: Thank you!
Sunshine Coast Foundation has awarded new grants totalling $95,000 to three local organizations. Grants from the Fund for Gender Equality support women, girls, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse individuals working towards a future grounded in equity, inclusion, and justice. Grant Recipients Grants fr
Sunshine Coast Foundation has awarded new grants totalling $95,000 to three local organizations. Grants from the Fund for Gender Equality support women, girls, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse individua...
$20K grant to SCCSS will help establish holistic food program Access to safe and nutritious meals is essential to well-being and, other than water, is the most basic need that people have. Yet, a grow...
Each year the Foundation publishes an annual review of its grants, the state of its finances, an up to date list of the permanent endowment funds, and stories about our work. Our 2020 Report to the Co...
Nearly two decades after its creation, the Sunshine Coast Community Foundation is changing its name and refreshing its public identity. As of October 16, 2020, the organization will be known as the ‘S...
The Sunshine Coast Foundation has awarded a grant of $20,000 to the New Market Funds Society on behalf of the Sunshine Coast Affordable Housing Society (SCAHS). The SCAHS is nearing completion on a pr...
The Sunshine Coast Foundation began making grants in 2005 and, since then, has provided $1.5M in support to local community projects. Many of these grants have resulted in lasting community benefits. ...