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.
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.