Fred and Edith Greene Foundation
Private foundation · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 892987512RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($841,333) as filed with the CRA.
Fred and Edith Greene Foundation is a private foundation based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.4M in revenue and $841K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 73% 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 58% 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 19 qualified donees totalling $758K in 2024, the largest being $450K to Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inc.. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $111K in 2020 to $3.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation will receive and maintain a fund or funds and oversee the investment of gifts to the foundation to preserve capital and maximize the rate of return within established guidelines appropriate to a charitable private foundation. The income generated will be distributed to qualified donees as defined in the income tax act (canada) as determined by the trustees of the foundation
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.4M | $841K | — | — | $758K | $25.8M |
| 2023 | $10.4M | $323K | — | — | $277K | $23.3M |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $300K | — | — | $260K | $12.8M |
| 2021 | $78K | $66K | — | — | $40K | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $111K | $59K | — | — | $40K | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $758K to 19 qualified donees:
- Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inc.$450K
- Ronald McDonald House Charities Atlantic Association$100K
- Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada$25K
- Hope United Church$25K
- Hospice Society of Greater Halifax$20K
- Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada$20K
- Dalhousie University$20K
- Canadian Cancer Society$10K
- Catapult Leadership Society$10K
- Hope for Mental Health Society$10K
- Prescott Group Society$10K
- Furniture Bank$10K
- Laing House Foundation$10K
- Soldiers Memorial Hospital Foundation$10K
- PAC Autism Nova Scotia Society$10K
- Paradise Historical Society$5,000
- Pine Grove Cemetery CO$5,000
- Chisholm Foundation for Children$5,000
- McAulay Jones Memorial Foundation$3,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Edith Greene (trustee); David Macleod (chairman); Richard Niedermayer (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fred and Edith Greene Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892987512RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.