Co-operators Community Fund (Charity)
Private foundation · Guelph, Ontario · BN 872672134RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,468,043) as filed with the CRA.
Co-operators Community Fund (Charity) is a private foundation based in Guelph, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.8M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 41% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 50 qualified donees totalling $1.2M in 2024, the largest being $46K to Elephant Thoughts Educational Outreach. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $8.7M in 2020 to $3.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The charity was active in donations throughout the year to provide funding for canadian charitable organizations which create employment and promote local self-reliance through co-operative and community based initiatives.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.8M | $1.5M | — | — | $1.2M | $22.6M |
| 2023 | $3.3M | $1.2M | — | — | $990K | $20.2M |
| 2022 | -$2.3M | $815K | — | — | $750K | $18.2M |
| 2021 | $482K | $625K | — | — | $607K | $21.3M |
| 2020 | $8.7M | $484K | — | — | $450K | $21.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.2M to 50 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Elephant Thoughts Educational Outreach$46K
- Stella's Place Assessment and Treatment Centre$40K
- Prospect Human Services Society$40K
- Lakecity Employment Services Association$40K
- Rise Asset Development$40K
- Productions Spectrum$40K
- Productions Jeun'est$40K
- Autism Resource Centre Inc.$40K
- Autism Society of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.$40K
- Water First Education and Training Inc.$40K
- The Reach Foundation Inc.$40K
- Pathways To Employment Society$30K
- ON Site Placement Services Association$30K
- The Zero Ceiling Society of Canada$30K
- Artbeat Studio Inc.$30K
- New Directions for Children Youth Adults and Families Inc.$30K
- Makeway Charitable Society$26K
- The Nameless Harm Reduction Outreach Services Inc.$25K
- Chep Good Food Inc.$25K
- Young Women's Christian Association of Halifax$24K
- Homeless Connect Toronto$24K
- Paris Presbyterian Church$23K
- Do Good Donuts and Cafe$23K
- Cultivate Canada Society$23K
- Brands for Canada$23K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paul Hanna (director); Sean Geobey (chairperson); Heather Conradi (director); David Boyde (director); Nicole Waldron (director); Norman Hall (director); Francois Hastir (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Co-operators Community Fund (Charity)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 872672134RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.