Fragrance Foundation
Private foundation · Dunnville, Ontario · BN 846195584RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,224,686) as filed with the CRA.
Fragrance Foundation is a private foundation based in Dunnville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.6M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 82% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 26 qualified donees totalling $1.1M in 2024, the largest being $653K to Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.6M in 2020 to $2.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation's goal is to strengthen the contributions that religious ideas practices values and institutions make to the common good of our society. This embraces the enrichment of the religious lives of canadian christians by supporting the recruitment and education of a new generation of talented christian and the role it plays in our lives. We believe we have achieved our stated objective by financially supporting the organizations listed on the t1236.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.2M | $10.9M |
| 2023 | $3M | $2.4M | — | — | $2.4M | $9.5M |
| 2022 | $2.8M | $2.6M | $17K | — | $2.6M | $6.2M |
| 2021 | $2.7M | $2.5M | $26K | — | $2.4M | $8.8M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $21K | — | $1.5M | $8.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$2,132,600
- Investment income$476,652
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 $1.1M to 26 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$653K
- World Renew$60K
- Indwell Community Homes$60K
- Niagara Christian Gleaners$50K
- Dunnville Youth Impact Inc.$50K
- Shalom Manor Long Term CARE Home$45K
- The Christian Reformed Church in North America$45K
- Dunnville Hospital & Healthcare Foundation$30K
- Rose City - Kids Ministry$20K
- ReFrame Ministries$20K
- Edudeo Ministries$20K
- The Christian Reformed Church in North America$16K
- Word & Deed Ministries Canada Inc.$15K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$15K
- Mission Services of Hamilton Inc.$10K
- Mission Aviation Fellowship of Canada$10K
- Dordt University$5,000
- Institute for Christian Studies$5,000
- The Bible League of Canada$4,000
- The Ministry to Seafarers of the Christian Reformed Church$2,000
- Teen Challenge Canada Inc.$2,000
- The Living Rock Ministries$1,500
- Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada$1,000
- Hope and Healing International$1,000
- The Lighthouse Christian Social Services$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joshua Bulk (president); Otto Bulk (secretary); Arjan Vos (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fragrance Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 846195584RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.