Charity BreakdownCanadian charity filings, itemized

Community Foundations of Canada

Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 136535226RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website

Your $100, itemizedCommunity Foundations of CanadaFiscal year ended December 31, 2024
Gifts to other charities$80
Charitable programs$15
Management & admin$5
TOTAL$100
Registered

Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($54,682,424) as filed with the CRA.

Community Foundations of Canada is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $57M in revenue and $54.7M in expenditures.

Its funding that year was roughly 37% from government, 50% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $22.9M.

Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 73% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 86% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $300,000–349,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 36 permanent full-time positions.

It reported gifts to 469 qualified donees totalling $37.8M in 2024, the largest being $3.8M to Vancouver Foundation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $134.5M in 2020 to $57M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.

In its own words

Canada Healthy Communities Initiative is an investment from the Government of Canada to transform public spaces in response to COVID-19. Indigenous Peoples Resilience Fund a fund that is built upon the resiliency of and guided by Indigenous Peoples to support Indigenous communities and organizations through the current public health crisis. Communities for Gender Equality the Fund builds on efforts to shift power to women girls Two-Spirit and gender-diverse people and will work towards a future grounded in justice and gender equality. The Investment Readiness Programs goal is to help soc…

Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.

The ledger, 2020–2024

YearRevenueSpendingProgramsFundraisingGifts outNet assets
2024$57M$54.7M$8.1M$20K$43.7M$16.7M
2023$128.6M$127.8M$8.6M$25K$116.9M$14.4M
2022$55.1M$55.1M$6.8M$11K$46M$13.6M
2021$48.4M$48.2M$14.7M—$29M$13.4M
2020$134.5M$134.1M$11.3M—$121.5M$13.1M

Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.

Money between charities, 2024

Granted $37.8M to 469 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:

Full grant ledger — all 469 grants

As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.

What it pays

Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:

  • $300,000–349,9992 positions
  • $200,000–249,9991 position
  • $160,000–199,9992 positions
  • $120,000–159,9992 positions
  • $80,000–119,9993 positions
  • Permanent full-time positions36
  • Total compensation, all staff$5M

Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.

Directors & trustees (2024)

Gordon Holley (board chair); Lisa Kolody (past chair); Narinder Dhami (director); Josiah Gado (director); Lydia Sadiq (director); Maxime Michel (director); Neil Parmar (vice-chair); Wendy Francis (director); Kelly Evans (director); Vikram Sachdev (treasurer); Aaron McRann (director); Katie Robertson (director); Danbi Cho (director); Reginald Black (director).

As listed on its 2024 return.

Check the source

Every figure on this page is from Community Foundations of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 136535226RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.