Brant Community Foundation
Public foundation · Brantford, Ontario · BN 883564494RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,351,486) as filed with the CRA.
Brant Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Brantford, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $6.1M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $14K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 13% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 78% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2M in 2020 to $6.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The purpose of the foundation is to act as a community leader and catalyst and to be a vehicle to provide a way for donors to improve their community forever building and holding a permanent endowment the income of which is to be used to meet the changing needs and opportunities across all sectors of the communities of brant county through grantmaking and community leadership projects.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.1M | $2.4M | $26K | $23K | $1.4M | $27.6M |
| 2023 | $5M | $1.6M | $11K | $22K | $803K | $23.9M |
| 2022 | $866K | $1.4M | $11K | $15K | $670K | $20.5M |
| 2021 | $3.3M | $1.2M | $6,825 | $954 | $625K | $20.9M |
| 2020 | $2M | $1.2M | $6,819 | $10K | $613K | $18.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, May 31, 2024
- Other income$4,161,522
- Investment income$573,458
- From other charities$377,218
- Receipted donations$286,711
- Other gifts$171,020
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $14K from 3 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,614
- The Calgary Foundation$4,362
- Community Foundations of Canada$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$209K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Darin Cleary (director); Chuck Beach (director); Paula Thomlison (chair); Larry Davis (director); Steve McGaghran (treasurer); Jayne Carman (director); Rita-Marie Hadley (director); Erin Monture (director); Steven Portelli (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Brant Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 883564494RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.