Boland Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118813245RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Religion
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($102,660) as filed with the CRA.
Boland Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $249K in revenue and $103K in expenditures.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 41% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 22 qualified donees totalling $88K in 2024, the largest being $10K to Scott Mission. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $86K in 2020 to $249K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Boland foundation makes donations to a wide variety of qualified charities as directed by its board of directors
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $249K | $103K | — | $9,000 | $88K | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $158K | $65K | — | — | $48K | $957K |
| 2022 | -$105K | $84K | — | — | $68K | $865K |
| 2021 | $197K | $72K | — | — | $61K | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $86K | $67K | — | — | $48K | $930K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $88K to 22 qualified donees:
- Scott Mission$10K
- University Hospitals Kingston Foundation$5,000
- Water First Education and Training Inc.$5,000
- Community Centre$5,000
- Toronto East Health Network Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Cancer Society$5,000
- Alzheimer Society of Ontario$5,000
- Saint Luke's United Church$5,000
- Toronto Wildlife Centre$5,000
- Out of the Cold Foundation$5,000
- The War Amputations of Canada$5,000
- Second Harvest Canada$5,000
- Daily Bread Food Bank$5,000
- Toronto District School Board$3,000
- Sexual Assault Centre (hamilton and Area)$3,000
- Movember Canada$2,000
- Environmental Defence Canada$2,000
- Uts Foundation$2,000
- Queen's University at Kingston$2,000
- Lakefield College School$2,000
- Collingwood General & Marine Hospital Foundation$1,000
- Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Hynes (president); Nicholas Boland (secretary); Christopher Boland (director); Shirley Hynes (director); Anne Hynes (director); Cavan Boland (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Boland Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118813245RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.