Charities Aid Foundation Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 801966334RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($29,854,711) as filed with the CRA.
Charities Aid Foundation Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $30.2M in revenue and $29.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from donations. In 2024, 54 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $7.3M.
Compared with 85 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $15.1M in 2024, the largest being $15.1M to Various Organizations - Refer to Supporting T1236 Schedule. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Caf canada has established partnerships with a diverse set of foreign organizations collaborating closely to implement and fund distinct projects in areas including poverty relief advancing education public health animal welfare medical research protecting the environment arts & culture and human rights. We also work domestically by funding low to zero interest loans; as well as supporting the work of 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 | $30.2M | $29.9M | — | — | $15.1M | $28.5M |
| 2023 | $24.3M | $24.8M | — | — | $16.4M | $28.1M |
| 2022 | $31.9M | $22.7M | $8M | — | $13.7M | $28.6M |
| 2021 | $28.3M | $28.5M | — | — | $13.2M | $19.4M |
| 2020 | $20.8M | $15.6M | — | — | $4.8M | $19.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $15.1M to 1 qualified donee:
- Various Organizations - Refer to Supporting T1236 Schedule$15.1M
Received $7.3M from 54 charities:
- Rethink Charity Foundation$1.9M
- Canadahelps Canadon$924K
- Canadahelps Canadon$924K
- The Lazaridis Family Foundation$914K
- Szocs Foundation$476K
- Aqueduct Foundation$333K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$296K
- The Calgary Foundation$158K
- First Avenue Foundation$143K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$115K
- The Great Potential Foundation$107K
- The Houssian Foundation$107K
- Toronto Foundation$103K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$79K
- The Asper Foundation$71K
- The Giustra Foundation$70K
- Canada Gives$56K
- Red Chair Foundation$54K
- The Consecon Foundation$50K
- The Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation$47K
- Makeway Foundation$46K
- La Fondation Sackler/the Sackler Foundation$37K
- Covenant of Life Ministries$30K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$30K
- The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation$26K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mo Lidsky (board chairman); Janet Boyd (treasurer); Neil Gallaiford (secretary); David Latner (member); Kostas Andrikopoulos (member); Elizabeth(liz) Choi (member); Anil Shah (member); Sam Vise (member); Tim Wong (member); Jessica Krafft (president and ceo).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Charities Aid Foundation Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 801966334RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.