Doggone Foundation
Public foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 844540138RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,585,487) as filed with the CRA.
Doggone Foundation is a public foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $246K in revenue and $5.6M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 66% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 20 qualified donees totalling $5.3M in 2024, the largest being $1.4M to Concordia University-Universite Concordia. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1.8M in 2020 to $246K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The doggone foundation is a public foundation whose purpose is to fund medical care and research programs in canadian hospitals and canadian university teaching hospitals and research institutes fund primary secondary and university education in canada fund in musical visual and performing arts fund protection of the natural environment in canada and fund registered chairtable organizations committed to community welfare and the relief of poverty.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $246K | $5.6M | — | — | $5.3M | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $720K | $8.5M | — | — | $8.2M | $6.4M |
| 2022 | -$550K | $7.4M | — | — | $7M | $14.2M |
| 2021 | $2.8M | $7.9M | — | — | $7.5M | $22.1M |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $8.7M | — | — | $8.3M | $27.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $5.3M to 20 qualified donees:
- Concordia University-Universite Concordia$1.4M
- Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation$1.1M
- The Lower Canada College Foundation/La Fondation Lower Canada Collège$1M
- Fondation de l'Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal$250K
- La Fondation du refuge pour femmes Chez Doris Inc. Chez Doris Women's Shelter Foundation Inc.$250K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$250K
- Queen Elizabeth Health Complex Foundation$200K
- The Montreal General Hospital Foundation$150K
- The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation$150K
- Teresa Dellar Palliative Care Residence Foundation Inc.$100K
- Old Brewery Mission Foundation / Fondation Mission Old Brewery$75K
- Weredale Foundation$50K
- Fondation jeunesse au soleil/Sun Youth Organization Foundation$50K
- Batshaw Youth and Family Centres Foundation$50K
- St. Raphael Palliative Care Home and Day Centre Inc.$50K
- Urban Native Youth Association$50K
- Bibliothèque des Jeunes de Montréal / Montréal Children's Library$50K
- Fondation Habilitas Habilitas Foundation$25K
- Projet Love: Vivre sans Violence (Québec)/Love: Leave Out Violence (Québec)$25K
- Canadian Connective Tissue Society$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paul Marchand (vice-president); Susan Avon (secretary); Allan Sniderman (director); Margaret Warner (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Doggone Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 844540138RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.