Fonds pour la démocratie Matthew R. Scanlan Democracy Fund
Private foundation · Nepean, Ontario · BN 733754402RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($11,345) as filed with the CRA.
Fonds pour la démocratie Matthew R. Scanlan Democracy Fund is a private foundation based in Nepean, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $18K in revenue and $11K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 17 qualified donees totalling $9,000 in 2024, the largest being $1,500 to World Food Programme. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $350K in 2022 to $18K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
Our charity gifts grants to five general types of qualified donee causes: Humanitarian; Democracy and Human Rights; Environmental; Clinical Research and Education.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $18K | $11K | — | — | $9,000 | $543K |
| 2023 | $10K | $7,755 | $0 | $0 | $6,000 | $331K |
| 2022 | $350K | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $201K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $9,000 to 17 qualified donees:
- World Food Programme$1,500
- Médecins sans frontières$1,500
- Homes For Heroes Foundation$1,000
- Human Rights Watch Canada$500
- Parliamentary Centre$500
- Amnesty International Canadian Section (english Speaking)$500
- Canadian Unicef Committee$500
- The University of Western Ontario$300
- La Fondation de l'Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi Inc.$300
- Help Lesotho$300
- Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami$300
- The Ottawa Hospital Foundation/la Fondation de l'Hopital d'Ottawa$300
- Cystic Fibrosis Canada / Fibrose Kystique Canada$300
- MS Canada SP Canada$300
- Environmental Defence Canada$300
- The Roberta Bondar Foundation$300
- The Bruce Trail Conservancy$300
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ronald Scanlan (president and director); Patricia Scanlan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fonds pour la démocratie Matthew R. Scanlan Democracy Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 733754402RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.