Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities/Oeuvre Bon Depart de Canadian Tire
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 137929451RR0002 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($28,102,402) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities/Oeuvre Bon Depart de Canadian Tire is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $25.8M in revenue and $28.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 8% from government. In 2024, 51 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $527K.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 62% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 88% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 23 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 504 qualified donees totalling $12M in 2024, the largest being $1.3M to Ever Active Schools. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Canadian tire jumpstart charities (jumpstart) helps financially disadvantaged children gain the benefits associated with participating in sports and recreational activities by providing funding to assist with cost of registration equipment and transportation. Jumpstart also funds accessibility grants and builds accessible playspaces to allow kids of all abilities to be involved in sports and recreation. Jumpstart also has a gender equity portfolio which includes a leadership program aimed at bringing together young female athletes and their coaches to develop leadership skills gain confiden…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $25.8M | $28.1M | $9.6M | $70K | $16.3M | $4.6M |
| 2023 | $34.8M | $35.3M | $15.4M | $88K | $17M | $4.4M |
| 2022 | $33M | $38.3M | $15.5M | $129K | $20.1M | $6.2M |
| 2021 | $29M | $35.6M | $12.1M | $57K | $21.3M | $9.8M |
| 2020 | $33.8M | $20.6M | $6.4M | $58K | $11.6M | $7.4M |
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$2,018,163
- From other charities$538,448
- Investment income$224,759
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 $12M to 504 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Ever Active Schools$1.3M
- Fondation Bon Départ de Canadian Tire du Québec Inc.$1M
- Spirit North$1M
- Canada Basketball$519K
- Free Play for Kids Inc.$484K
- Abilities Centre Durham$300K
- Sport Calgary$263K
- Doug Philpott Inner-City Children's Tennis Fund$180K
- Royal Canadian Golf Association/association Royale de Golf D$170K
- Surrey School District No. 36$130K
- Hope and Health for Life Society$124K
- Hockey Education Reaching Out Society$105K
- Canucks Autism Network Society$101K
- Growing Young Movers Youth Development Inc.$96K
- City of Ottawa$95K
- Chill Foundation of Canada / Fondation Chill du Canada$88K
- Play Forever$82K
- Take a Hike Youth Mental Health Foundation$77K
- Town of Hanover$75K
- Umoja Community Mosaic$70K
- Lay-Up Youth Basketball$67K
- Arthritis Society Canada / Société de l'Arthrite du Canada$62K
- Power to Be Adventure Therapy Society$61K
- Paralympic Sports Association$60K
- YMCA of Niagara$54K
Received $527K from 51 charities:
- Fondation Bon Départ de Canadian Tire du Québec Inc.$215K
- The Taylor Family Foundation$60K
- Deplaedt Charitable Foundation$33K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$29K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$23K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- BenefAction Foundation$20K
- Reise Family Foundation$12K
- OCH Foundation for Healthy Communities/Fondation de Lco Pourdes communautés sainess$10K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$8,626
- United Way Niagara$8,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$7,300
- Sylvan Lake Seniors Association$6,420
- Link Charity Canada Inc$6,022
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$5,750
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$5,300
- Knelson Family Foundation$5,000
- Joe & Debbie Vidal Foundation Inc.$5,000
- The Temiskaming Foundation$5,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,760
- Holy Trinity School Educational Network$1,637
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$1,599
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$1,332
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions23
- Total compensation, all staff$3.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Martha Billes (chairman emeritus); Owen Billes (director); Nadir Patel (chairman); Susan O'Brien (director); Robert Hatch (director); Ted Mangnall (director); TJ Flood (director); Scott Fraser (director); Eva Salem (director); Jean-Pierre Larochelle (director); Teresa Resch (director); PJ Czank (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities/Oeuvre Bon Depart de Canadian Tire’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 137929451RR0002), or read how we compute the receipt.