Conam Charitable Foundation
Public foundation · Thornhill, Ontario · BN 842603615RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($34,178,596) as filed with the CRA.
Conam Charitable Foundation is a public foundation based in Thornhill, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $32.9M in revenue and $34.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from donations.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 35% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 382 qualified donees totalling $27.3M in 2024, the largest being $3M to Fondation Famille Jacques Larivière. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $61.9M in 2020 to $32.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The charitable foundation raises funds to distribute to charitable organizations or other qualified individuals.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $32.9M | $34.2M | — | — | $27.3M | $15.5M |
| 2023 | $42.9M | $47.7M | — | — | $38.9M | $16.9M |
| 2022 | $63.2M | $62.9M | — | — | $51.1M | $21.6M |
| 2021 | $81.9M | $74.7M | — | — | $58.8M | $22.6M |
| 2020 | $61.9M | $55.3M | — | — | $45M | $14.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, June 30, 2024
- Receipted donations$31,386,010
- Investment income$1,472,855
- Other gifts$5,000
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 $27.3M to 382 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Fondation Famille Jacques Larivière$3M
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$2.9M
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2.3M
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$1.3M
- Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto$871K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$850K
- Abundance Canada$820K
- University Health Network$625K
- Caribbean Jewish Community$620K
- Sinai Health Foundation$561K
- Lakefield College School Foundation$514K
- Jewish Federation of Ottawa$504K
- Private Giving Foundation$500K
- The Mandelbaum Kids Charitable Corp.$490K
- GiveWise Foundation Canada$489K
- The Dani Reiss Foundation$463K
- The Holgan88 Foundation$400K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$400K
- Shelley and Guy Scott Family Foundation$400K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$392K
- Mackenzie Health Foundation$351K
- Technion Canada$319K
- The Harvey and Jody Dales Family Philanthropic Foundation$300K
- Fondation Jacques & Michel Auger$250K
- Jane and Tom Sabourin Family Foundation$247K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Steve Roth (president director); Warren Blatt (vice-president director); Robert Benmergui (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Conam Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 842603615RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.