Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind Foundation
Public foundation · Manotick, Ontario · BN 863051199RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($109,185) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind Foundation is a public foundation based in Manotick, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $581K in revenue and $109K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $6,497.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 58% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $100K in 2024, the largest being $100K to Canadian Guide Dogs For The Blind. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $13K in 2020 to $581K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
To accept and hold invested donations gifts legacies and bequests and to disburse from the income derived therefrom and the capital thereof to Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind a registered charity to assist in their charitable operations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $581K | $109K | — | — | $100K | $6.8M |
| 2023 | $2.7M | $53K | — | — | $45K | $6.4M |
| 2022 | $101K | $56K | — | — | $50K | $3.7M |
| 2021 | $3.5M | — | — | — | — | $3.6M |
| 2020 | $13K | $12K | — | — | $10K | $114K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $100K to 1 qualified donee:
- Canadian Guide Dogs For The Blind$100K
Received $6,497 from 8 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,222
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$999
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$792
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$721
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$307
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$249
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$207
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jane Thornton (secretary); Edward Mann (chair); Robert Meredith (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863051199RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.