Carolyn Sifton Foundation Incorporated
Private foundation · Winnipeg, Manitoba · BN 130189616RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,560,248) as filed with the CRA.
Carolyn Sifton Foundation Incorporated is a private foundation based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.8M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% 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 23 qualified donees totalling $1.3M in 2024, the largest being $400K to Brockville and District Hospital Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $3.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
In keeping with carolyn sifton's love of and concern for the welfare of children the main granting program focuses on youth at risk from winnipeg mb and brockville on. We support projects in healthcare education social services and art and culture designed to assist young people who do not have the same opportunities due to social or economic circumstances as other youth to develop to their fullest potential. Grants go to other qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.8M | $1.6M | — | — | $1.3M | $29.2M |
| 2023 | $3.3M | $1.7M | — | — | $1.4M | $27M |
| 2022 | -$2.4M | $1.2M | — | — | $965K | $25.5M |
| 2021 | $3.3M | $1.1M | — | — | $891K | $29M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $1.1M | — | — | $872K | $26.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.3M to 23 qualified donees:
- Brockville and District Hospital Foundation$400K
- Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inc.$250K
- The Fort Whyte Foundation Inc.$100K
- The Brockville Rowing Club Incorporated$60K
- The Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba Inc.$50K
- St. Lawrence Anglican Church$50K
- The Brockville Community Foundation$50K
- West Broadway Youth Outreach Inc.$30K
- Reverend Norm Johnston Youth Residence (lanark Leeds'n Grenville) Inc.$26K
- Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Leeds and Grenville$26K
- Vincent de Paul-Conseil national du Canada Society of Saint-Vincent de Paul-National council of Canada$25K
- Manitoba Theatre for Young People Inc.$25K
- Harvest Manitoba Inc.$25K
- Dream Factory Foundation Inc.$25K
- D.a.s.c.h. Foundation Inc.$20K
- Pan Am Clinic Foundation Inc.$20K
- Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada Inc.$20K
- Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Leeds and Grenville$20K
- Canada-Ukraine Foundation$15K
- Leeds and Grenville Interval House$10K
- Dreams Take Flight (Canada) / Voyage de Reves (Canada)$10K
- Brockville and District Hospital Foundation$6,000
- Winnipeg Humane Society$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
James Clarke (director); Gregory Finlayson (director); Graeme Sifton (director president); Micah Sifton (director); Trevor Sifton (director); John Simpson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Carolyn Sifton Foundation Incorporated’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130189616RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.