Canadian Online Giving Foundation
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 862216165RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($177,202,270) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Online Giving Foundation is a private foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $177.2M in revenue and $177.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from donations, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $16.3M.
Compared with 380 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 19,077 qualified donees totalling $171.1M in 2024, the largest being $11.1M to United Way of Greater Toronto. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $103.4M in 2020 to $177.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
All programs for the Canadian Online Giving Foundation were commenced in 2009. The purpose and mission of the Canadian Online Giving Foundation is to act as a donor advised fund whereby funds are aggregated and distributed to registered charitable organizations throughout Canada.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $177.2M | $177.2M | — | — | $171.1M | $4.6M |
| 2023 | $164.6M | $165.8M | — | — | $160.7M | $4.5M |
| 2022 | $154.8M | $153.3M | — | — | $148.9M | $5.7M |
| 2021 | $140.3M | $138M | — | — | $134.2M | $4.2M |
| 2020 | $103.4M | $103M | — | — | $99.5M | $1.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$90,121,329
- From other charities$20,666,513
- Other income$3,205,679
- Investment income$822,583
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 $171.1M to 19,077 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$11.1M
- Centraide Du Grand Montréal$3.4M
- United Way of Calgary and Area$3M
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$2.5M
- Alberta Cancer Foundation$2M
- Canadian Cancer Society$2M
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$1.5M
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$1.5M
- Islamic Relief - Ir Canada$1.2M
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$1.2M
- United Way of Winnipeg$1.2M
- United Way British Columbia$1.1M
- Faith Food Bank Society$1.1M
- United Way Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo$1.1M
- Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology$1M
- Daily Bread Food Bank$961K
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$946K
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada$934K
- Toronto Cat Rescue$853K
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$837K
- Movember Canada$785K
- Ronald McDonald House Canada / Maison Ronald McDonald Canada$752K
- Kids Help Phone / Jeunesse J' Ecoute$741K
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$732K
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada/Les repaires jeunesse du Canada$706K
Received $16.3M from 23 charities:
- CIBC Foundation$11.8M
- Bell Canada Employees' Charity Trust$1.2M
- Honda Canada Foundation$322K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$319K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$305K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$299K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$291K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$264K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$219K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$175K
- The Allstate Foundation of Canada$175K
- Bell Canada Employees' Charity Trust$166K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$162K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$151K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$148K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$128K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$125K
- The Unity Values Foundation$44K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$20K
- Sony Canada Charitable Foundation$11K
- Bosa Properties Charitable Foundation$5,300
- Beatrice Stevens Memorial Foundation Inc.$1,500
- Nova Scotia Nature Trust$22
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
H. Bryan de Lottinville (director & president); Lance Ludman (treasurer and secretary); Kathy Povoas Fields (director); Rebecca Skvorc (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Online Giving Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 862216165RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.