Donner Canadian Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 129826210RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,888,142) as filed with the CRA.
Donner Canadian Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $9.4M in revenue and $8.9M in expenditures.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 110 qualified donees totalling $7.4M in 2023, the largest being $380K to Clean Economy Fund. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The foundation makes grants to canadian registered charities and listed u.s. And u.k. Universities. Grant making focuses largely on public policy issues. The foundation conducts an award program promoting excellence in public policy writing and carries on a public lecture series on public policies.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.4M | $8.9M | $1.4M | — | $5.7M | $137.7M |
| 2023 | -$3M | $10M | $1.6M | — | $7.4M | $139.7M |
| 2022 | $6.1M | $10.2M | $1.2M | — | $7.1M | $153.1M |
| 2021 | $15.6M | $9.6M | $1M | — | $6.8M | $158.5M |
| 2020 | $6.6M | $9M | $971K | — | $4M | $155.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Granted $7.4M to 110 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Clean Economy Fund$380K
- Coast Conservation Endowment Fund Foundation$250K
- Makeway Charitable Society$209K
- Indigenous Peoples Resilience Fund$200K
- Centre for Civic Engagement$195K
- The Fraser Institute$185K
- UHN Foundation$175K
- Raven (respecting Aboriginal Values and Environmental Needs)$160K
- The Macdonald-Laurier Institute$160K
- Institut économique de montréal$158K
- Makeway Foundation$150K
- Oceans North Conservation Society$147K
- Canadian Federation of Humane Societies$138K
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$130K
- Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Foundation$125K
- Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources Inc.$125K
- Queen's University at Kingston$124K
- Ecology Action Centre$115K
- CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada$113K
- World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial pour la Nature Can Ada$108K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$107K
- Oceana Canada$105K
- University of Delaware$100K
- The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy (canada)$99K
- Windmill Microlending$95K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$561K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gregory S. Belton (governor); Marie Delorme (governor); Margot Franssen (governor); Stephanie Hanson (governor); Kyle Hill (governor); Christopher Roosevelt (governor); Brittany Roy (governor); Dillon Roy (governor); Anita Winsor (governor).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Donner Canadian Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129826210RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.