Colin and Belle MacDonald Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 840346043RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,044,797) as filed with the CRA.
Colin and Belle MacDonald Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $972K in revenue and $1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $10K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 85% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 13 qualified donees totalling $1M in 2024, the largest being $500K to Qeii Health Sciences Centre Auxiliary. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1.5M in 2020 to $972K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The foundations'activities are limited to collecting charitable donations investing the funds to earn income and using the foundations income and capital to make donations to 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 | $972K | $1M | — | — | $1M | $841K |
| 2023 | $421K | $1,428 | -$3,862 | — | — | $914K |
| 2022 | $897K | $1.1M | $3,342 | — | $1.1M | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $852K | $1M | — | — | $1M | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $901K | — | — | $897K | $1.5M |
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$805,292
- Other income$111,245
- Investment income$30,119
- Other gifts$12,714
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 $1M to 13 qualified donees:
- Qeii Health Sciences Centre Auxiliary$500K
- I W K Health Centre Charitable Foundation$218K
- Bonny Lea Charitable Foundation$80K
- Ronald McDonald House Charities Atlantic Association$50K
- Kids Help Phone / Jeunesse J' Ecoute$49K
- Dartmouth General Hospital Charitable Foundation$38K
- Brigadoon Children's Camp Society$33K
- Habitat for Humanity Nova Scotia$25K
- Slow Motion Food Film Fest Society$20K
- Northwoodcare Group Incorporated$13K
- The Tema Foundation$10K
- Community CARE Network Society$1,500
- Halifax Transition House Association$1,000
Received $10K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Macdonald (director); Colin Macdonald (director); Rose Macdonald (director); John Macdonald (director); Bruce Towler (director); Howard Conter (director); Colin Macdonald (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Colin and Belle MacDonald Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 840346043RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.