Christy's Legacy Foundation
Private foundation · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 702040700RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($11,335) as filed with the CRA.
Christy's Legacy Foundation is a private foundation based in Waterloo, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $11K in revenue and $11K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 79% from donations, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $665.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $11K in 2024, the largest being $7,000 to Waterloo Regional Health Network Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
This charity is intended to support charities (qualified donees) that were supported by Christy Hughes in her lifetime. These charities fall into one or more of the following causes: - Environment Protection Preservation and Improvement - Animal Welfare - Food Security - Children's Literacy - Health - Recreational Activities for underprivileged children. Each year the trustees will select one or more of these causes and donate funds raised to charities which support these causes. All volunteers for the charity are members of Christy's immediate family. No compensation was given.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2023–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11K | $11K | $0 | — | $11K | $120 |
| 2023 | $7,675 | $7,640 | $0 | — | $6,800 | $60 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $11K to 4 qualified donees:
Received $665 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brian Hughes (trustee); Nancy Hughes (trustee); Jillian Mielke (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Christy's Legacy Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 702040700RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.