Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation
Public foundation · Kingston, Ontario · BN 896713500RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($240,330,755) as filed with the CRA.
Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation is a public foundation based in Kingston, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $900.5M in revenue and $240.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 65% from donations. In 2024, 32 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $33.2M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 4,784 qualified donees totalling $215.5M in 2024, the largest being $10.3M to The RCCH Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $273.3M in 2020 to $900.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The foundation specializes in the management and administration of charitable gift funds or donor advised funds designed to help donors increase and sustain their support to qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $900.5M | $240.3M | — | — | $215.5M | $2.4B |
| 2023 | $613.3M | $165M | — | — | $146M | $1.8B |
| 2022 | $198.6M | $179.3M | — | — | $162.7M | $1.3B |
| 2021 | $515.4M | $133.9M | — | — | $120.1M | $313.2M |
| 2020 | $273.3M | $90.7M | — | — | $79.8M | $931.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $215.5M to 4,784 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The RCCH Foundation$10.3M
- Sprout Foundation$6.3M
- Concordia University-Universite Concordia$4.2M
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$4.1M
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$3.2M
- The Aga Khan Museum$3.1M
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$3M
- Ajax Pickering Hospital Foundation$3M
- Sunshine Coast Regional District$2.6M
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University Foundation$2.4M
- UHN Foundation$2.2M
- Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology$2M
- The Georgian Bay Trust Foundation Inc$2M
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$2M
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$2M
- ST. Paul's Foundation of Vancouver$1.8M
- Threshold Housing Society$1.5M
- Authentic Walk Ministries$1.5M
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$1.5M
- Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation$1.4M
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$1.3M
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$1.3M
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$1.3M
- The Ottawa Hospital Foundation/la Fondation de l'Hopital d'Ottawa$1.3M
- Fondation du Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal$1.2M
Received $33.2M from 32 charities:
- The Borealis Foundation$17.4M
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$3.2M
- Greenrock Charitable Trust$3M
- Juniper Foundation$2M
- The Roel C. Buck Family Foundation Canada Inc.$1.3M
- Aqueduct Foundation$1.2M
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$1.1M
- Rayjo Charitable Trust$790K
- Fragrance Foundation$653K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$502K
- Canada Gives$472K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$339K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$225K
- Pollock Family Foundation/Fondation de la famille pollock$200K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$113K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$111K
- BenefAction Foundation$101K
- Pollock Family Foundation/Fondation de la famille pollock$100K
- Brookfield Partners Foundation$100K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$80K
- Assists Projects$50K
- WCPD Foundation$49K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$30K
- Herman Kassinger Foundation$25K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$25K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michelle Podhy (director); Doug Gunton (secretary - treasurer); Alan Dunnett (director); Florence Carey (chair); Bonnie Shepherd (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 896713500RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.