Air Canada Foundation
Public foundation · Dorval, Quebec · BN 831577283RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,158,644) as filed with the CRA.
Air Canada Foundation is a public foundation based in Dorval, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures.
In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $340K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 41% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 98% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 69 qualified donees totalling $1.8M in 2024, the largest being $194K to Breakfast Club of Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $562K in 2020 to $2.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The foundation is an organization designed to administer community investments and allow air canada to expand its community support by contributing to charities focused on the health and well-being of children and youth.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $2.2M | — | $340K | $1.8M | $3M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $1.7M | — | $314K | $1.4M | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $2M | — | $297K | $1.7M | $2.3M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $586K | — | $144K | $430K | $3M |
| 2020 | $562K | $2.4M | — | $12K | $2.3M | $2.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.8M to 69 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Breakfast Club of Canada$194K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$150K
- Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation$100K
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada$100K
- The Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba Inc.$85K
- Dr Clown Foundation$75K
- Mission Bon Accueil / Welcome Hall Mission$70K
- Breakfast Club of Canada$69K
- The Learning Enrichment Foundation$60K
- The Learning Enrichment Foundation$50K
- University of Victoria$50K
- Toba Centre for Children and Youth Inc.$50K
- La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/The Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation$50K
- The Joy Smith Foundation Inc.$50K
- La Tablee des Chefs$50K
- Ever Active Schools$50K
- La maison bleue: milieu de vie préventif à l'enfance$49K
- Second Harvest Canada$30K
- Hockey Education Reaching Out Society$30K
- Fondation Olo$30K
- Christie Refugee Welcome Centre Inc.$30K
- The Janeway Children's Hospital Foundation$26K
- The Sunshine Foundation of Canada$25K
- Partageons l'espoir (Québec)$25K
- Fondation Habilitas Habilitas Foundation$25K
Received $340K from 9 charities:
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$254K
- Canadahelps Canadon$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$40K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$500
- Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation Inc.$426
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$237
- The Peel District School Board$97
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Priscille Leblanc (chairman); Louise-Helene Senecal (secretary); Amos Kazzaz (treasurer); Panagiota Zafiris (director); Arielle Meloul (director); Lucie Guillemette (director); Carolyn M. Hadrovic (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Air Canada Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 831577283RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.