Canada Gives
Public foundation · Collingwood, Ontario · BN 833062144RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($43,218,896) as filed with the CRA.
Canada Gives is a public foundation based in Collingwood, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $90.5M in revenue and $43.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from donations. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.3M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 38% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1,095 qualified donees totalling $35.3M in 2024, the largest being $4.5M to Jordan and Lisa Gnat Family Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $46.3M in 2020 to $90.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Canada gives supports major donors and the not for profit sector across canada with customized donor advised funds. Most of our donor advised funds are administered as family foundation accounts and are supported with additional services to help donors better understand the not for profit sector; our goal is to help our donors and their families achieve their own philanthropic objectives and make an impact on charitable programs at home and abroad.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $90.5M | $43.2M | $42K | — | $35.3M | $331.3M |
| 2023 | $75.6M | $27.1M | $68K | — | $21M | $284M |
| 2022 | $8.3M | $23.2M | $1.2M | — | $19.5M | $235.5M |
| 2021 | $155.1M | $23.3M | $1.1M | — | $20.7M | $250.5M |
| 2020 | $46.3M | $23.6M | $671K | — | $19.6M | $118.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $35.3M to 1,095 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Jordan and Lisa Gnat Family Foundation$4.5M
- University Hospitals Foundation$3M
- Renfrew Educational Services Foundation$1.1M
- Little Warriors$1.1M
- The Calgary Zoological Society$1M
- University of Victoria$760K
- Adeara Recovery Centre$700K
- LCC International Fund Inc.$525K
- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies$502K
- Red Deer Hospice Society$501K
- The Jessica Martel Memorial Foundation$500K
- United Hatzalah Canada$491K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$472K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$472K
- Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) British Columbia$430K
- Water First Education and Training Inc.$356K
- UHN Foundation$346K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$327K
- Children of Armenia Fund Canada$310K
- The DR. Bob Kemp Hospice Foundation Inc.$305K
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$295K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$277K
- The Samaritan's Purse - Canada$257K
- ST. Paul's Lutheran Church$250K
- BCMB Bible Camp Society$225K
Received $2.3M from 18 charities:
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$908K
- BenefAction Foundation$849K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$193K
- Canadahelps Canadon$86K
- Canadahelps Canadon$86K
- WCPD Foundation$67K
- Conam Charitable Foundation$29K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$16K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$15K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Canada's Walk of Fame$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,879
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$2,000
- Canadian Forum of Russian-Speaking Jewry$1,800
- The Friedberg Charitable Foundation$500
- The Weitz Family Foundation$120
- Canada Gives$0
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$155K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Larry Levine (secretary); Daryl Sider (treasurer); Brent Babcock (director); Paul Williams (director); Heather Sargeant (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canada Gives’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 833062144RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.