Community Foundation for Kingston & Area
Public foundation · Kingston, Ontario · BN 891432395RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,664,688) as filed with the CRA.
Community Foundation for Kingston & Area is a public foundation based in Kingston, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $8.6M in revenue and $2.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 37% from donations. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $154K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 90% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 164 qualified donees totalling $1.8M in 2024, the largest being $368K to Family and Children's Services of Frontenac Lennox and Addington. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.9M in 2020 to $8.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The foundation provides grants to groups with charitable registration numbers primarily in the greater kingston and surrounding area. These grants are awarded to encourage community development in areas such as health and social services arts and culture environmental initiatives and community development. The foundation plays a leadership role in the community in areas such as community consultation.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.6M | $2.7M | $225K | $57K | $1.8M | $39.9M |
| 2023 | $5M | $2.4M | $263K | $48K | $1.5M | $33.9M |
| 2022 | $56K | $2.6M | $196K | $38K | $1.8M | $31.2M |
| 2021 | $9.8M | $1.6M | $183K | $42K | $1.1M | $33.7M |
| 2020 | $2.9M | $1.4M | $152K | $38K | $980K | $25.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.8M to 164 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Family and Children's Services of Frontenac Lennox and Addington$368K
- Kingston Community Health Centres$133K
- Queen's University at Kingston$91K
- University Hospitals Kingston Foundation$71K
- Martha's Table Community Program$57K
- Boys and Girls Club of Kingston & Area Inc.$54K
- Lion Hearts Inc.$50K
- Partners in Mission Food Bank$46K
- ST Lawrence Youth Association$45K
- Chalmers United Church$39K
- Kingston Symphony Association$37K
- H'art Centre of Smiles Inc.$35K
- Kingston Employment and Youth Services Inc.$26K
- Loving Spoonful Kingston$25K
- Centre for Abuse and Trauma Therapy Inc.$25K
- The Food Sharing Project$25K
- Independent Living Centre Kingston$21K
- Start2Finish Canada$20K
- Outreach ST George's Kingston$19K
- R. K. Y. Camp$18K
- Youth Diversion Program$18K
- The Canadian National Institute For The Blind$18K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington Incorporated$17K
- Frontenac Arch Biosphere Foundation$16K
- Doula Support Foundation$16K
Received $154K from 15 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$37K
- Canadahelps Canadon$37K
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$25K
- Frontenac County Schools Museum Association$23K
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$8,500
- Aqueduct Foundation$7,000
- Link Charity Canada Inc$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,940
- DR. Samuel S. Robinson Charitable Foundation$2,000
- Community Foundations of Canada$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$975
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$900
- The Davies Charitable Foundation Inc.$500
- Church of the Good Shepherd$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$120
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$542K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kris Millan (chair); Monica Labarge (vice-chair); Cara Chesney (treasurer); Robert Wood (secretary); Peter Finnegan (director); Alison Young (director); Donna Armstrong Segal (director); Willa Henry (director); Roger Wilson (director); Denise Cumming (director); Kent Williams (director); Cortney Clark (director); Dean Duff (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Community Foundation for Kingston & Area’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891432395RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.