Barrie Community Foundation
Public foundation · Barrie, Ontario · BN 844126276RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($514,377) as filed with the CRA.
Barrie Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Barrie, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $745K in revenue and $514K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 54% from other charities. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $12K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 39% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 21 qualified donees totalling $416K in 2024, the largest being $82K to Gilda's Club Simcoe Muskoka. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $443K in 2020 to $745K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Disbursing grants to qualified donees and soliciting new endowment funds were the sole activities during the year
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $745K | $514K | — | — | $416K | $2.3M |
| 2023 | $264K | $146K | — | — | $52K | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $131K | — | — | $46K | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $621K | $752K | — | $2,046 | $680K | $889K |
| 2020 | $443K | $218K | — | $23K | $168K | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $416K to 21 qualified donees:
- Gilda's Club Simcoe Muskoka$82K
- Talk Is Free Theatre Inc.$74K
- Seasons Centre for Grieving Children$69K
- Lapani Dramatic Theatre Inc.$51K
- Habitat for Humanity$37K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Barrie and District$19K
- Youth Haven (barrie)$19K
- Rescue Lake Simcoe Charitable Foundation$16K
- Camphill Foundation Canada$13K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada/conseil de Direction de l'Armée du Salut du Canada$7,100
- Youth Haven (barrie)$6,465
- Elizabeth Fry Society of Simcoe County$6,465
- Samaritan House Community Ministries Simcoe County$6,240
- Women & Children's Shelter (barrie)$4,275
- Barrie & District Christmas Cheer Organization$1,650
- Barrie Food Bank$1,400
- Grove Park Home for Senior Citizens$1,200
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation$850
- Barrie Public Library Board$400
- North-West Barrie United Church$225
- Seasons Centre$225
Received $12K from 3 charities:
- Toronto Foundation$7,408
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,512
- Community Foundations of Canada$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Angela Baldwin (director); Marshall Green (chairman/director); Ali Khonsari (director); Robyn Latchman (director); Jim McIntosh (director); Gary Pearson (director); Michael Walker (treasurer); Barbara White (director); Kathryn Whitehead (vice chairman); Richard Fenton (director); Janice Mumberson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Barrie Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 844126276RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.