Bishop Alexander Carter Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Sudbury, Ontario · BN 885835512RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($751,212) as filed with the CRA.
Bishop Alexander Carter Foundation is a public foundation based in Sudbury, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $472K in revenue and $751K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 13 qualified donees totalling $342K in 2023, the largest being $80K to L'Arche Sudbury Inc.. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Distributes funds to other charitable organizations in northeastern ontario
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $472K | $751K | $149K | — | $603K | $12.2M |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $450K | $283 | — | $342K | $11.4M |
| 2022 | -$450K | $546K | $10K | — | $422K | $10.4M |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $550K | $465K | — | $465K | $11.4M |
| 2020 | $529K | $382K | — | — | $310K | $10.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Granted $342K to 13 qualified donees:
- L'Arche Sudbury Inc.$80K
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation for the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario Canada$70K
- Maison McCulloch Hospice$40K
- The Gathering Place$35K
- St Vincent's Place Inc.$20K
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation for the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario Canada$20K
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation for the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario Canada$19K
- Near North Palliative Care Network$15K
- Soup Kitchen Community Centre$10K
- Inner City Home of Sudbury$10K
- Elgin Street Mission$10K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sault Ste. Marie Inc.$8,000
- Blue Door Soup Kitchen$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Thomas Dowd (director); Louise Paquette (director); George Valin (director); Joe Ruscio (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bishop Alexander Carter Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 885835512RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.