Bududa Canada Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 825358286RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($160,499) as filed with the CRA.
Bududa Canada Foundation is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 $288K in revenue and $160K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 28% from donations, 72% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $397K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $113K in 2020 to $288K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Bududa canada foundation relieves poverty and advance vocational educational in uganda by providing governance and funding to the bududa learning center which is acting as an intermediary under a contractor agreement between bududa canada foundation and the bududa learning center.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $288K | $160K | $154K | — | — | $160K |
| 2023 | $92K | $151K | $146K | — | — | $10K |
| 2022 | $101K | $129K | $122K | — | — | $70K |
| 2021 | $140K | $121K | $112K | — | — | $97K |
| 2020 | $113K | $89K | $78K | $2,364 | — | $78K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $397K from 9 charities:
- Mastercard Foundation$245K
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$20K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$10K
- The Cole foundation/La Fondation Cole$2,500
- The David H. Laidley Foundation/fondation David H. Laidley$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$340
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Matthew B Elfird (chair of the board); Kaitlyn Riordan (director and board treasurer); Sheila Havard (director and board secretary); David J Kern (director); Virginia Lafar (director); Kathleen O'Shea (director); Louisa Spawls (director); Barbara Wybar (ex-officio member); Court Young (ex-officio member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bududa Canada Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 825358286RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.