Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada
Public foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 801839010RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,352,545) as filed with the CRA.
Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada is a public foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $9,858.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 75% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 106 qualified donees totalling $1.3M in 2024, the largest being $50K to Right to Play International. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The canada post community foundation was established on april 14 2008. The foundation's purpose is to provide support to frontline organizations that make a positive impact in communities across canada.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.4M | — | — | $1.3M | $1.6M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.2M | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.3M | — | — | $1.3M | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.3M | — | — | $1.2M | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1.3M | — | — | $1.3M | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Other gifts$377,267
- Investment income$42,236
- Receipted donations$17,183
- From other charities$9,510
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
Granted $1.3M to 106 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Right to Play International$50K
- Moose Hide Campaign Development Society$50K
- Substance. On s'informe. On en parle. / Substance. Learn about it. Talk about it.$50K
- Actua$50K
- Turnor Lake and Birch Narrows Community Food Centre$25K
- Trails Youth Initiatives Inc.$25K
- The City of Airdrie Library Board$25K
- The Central Alberta Women's Emergency Shelter Society$25K
- Stigma-Free Mental Health Society$25K
- Simon Fraser University$25K
- Scientists in School$25K
- Oshawa-Durham Rape Crisis Centre$25K
- Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital$25K
- Kids Cancer CARE Foundation of Alberta$25K
- Sainte-Justine UHC Foundation$25K
- Fernwood Neighbourhood Resource Group Society$25K
- Crossroads for Women Inc.$25K
- Children's Aid Foundation of Halton$25K
- Centre de pédiatrie sociale en communauté de Lanaudière$25K
- Centre de pédiatrie sociale Coeur des Laurentides$25K
- Firefighters Burn Treatment Society$25K
- Girls Incorporated of Durham$25K
- Le Grand Chemin Inc.$25K
- Operation Come Home$24K
- Arts On the Ave Edmonton Society$22K
Received $9,858 from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Doug Ettinger (chair board of trustees); Rob Lackie (trustee); Susan Margles (trustee); Vikram Khurana (trustee); Jeffrey Orridge (trustee); Martha Durdin (trustee); Julia Deans (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 801839010RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.