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.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$1,953,129
- Investment income$981,475
- Other income$902,939
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
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.