GiftPact Foundation Inc.
Public foundation · Winnipeg, Manitoba · BN 839545803RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($34,454,041) as filed with the CRA.
GiftPact Foundation Inc. is a public foundation based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $34.3M in revenue and $34.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 102% from donations. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.4M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 76% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 669 qualified donees totalling $33.4M in 2024, the largest being $3.2M to Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $14.5M in 2020 to $34.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The objective of the Foundation is to increase philanthropy through the introduction and management of donor advised funds. Donor advised funds are restricted funds managed by the Foundation that give certain advisory rights to donors. The Foundation offers two types of donor advised programs: 1) the Impact Now option is appropriate for donations which are to be disbursed in the short term (typically within one year); and 2) the Future Impact option is appropriate for donors that want to build a fund and anticipate distributing portfolio growth over time. In 2021 the Foundation furthered its…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $34.3M | $34.5M | — | — | $33.4M | $38.3M |
| 2023 | $37.6M | $31.4M | — | — | $30.6M | $38.5M |
| 2022 | $19.6M | $15.5M | — | — | $15.2M | $32.3M |
| 2021 | $9.7M | $5.7M | — | — | $5.5M | $28.2M |
| 2020 | $14.5M | $184K | — | — | — | $24.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $33.4M to 669 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3.2M
- The Turner Hope Foundation$1.5M
- Andover Canadian Fund Inc.$1.4M
- Organisation CHABAD Westmount / Westmount CHABAD Organization$1.2M
- Ottawa Community Foundation$1.1M
- Vossen Family Foundation Inc.$1M
- The Veritas Foundation/La Fondation Veritas$993K
- The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba$915K
- Private Giving Foundation$650K
- The Dufresne Foundation Inc.$530K
- Fondation de l'Institut de Cardiologie de Montreal/montreal Heart Institute Foundation$520K
- Abundance Canada$500K
- N I F Canadian Charitable Trust$490K
- Expand Hope Foundation$480K
- Foundation Neuro-Efficiency Québec$418K
- James Barriere Foundation for the Underprivileged$415K
- Holy Blossom Temple$401K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary$375K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$362K
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$306K
- Ronald and Carmella Vincelli Family Foundation$301K
- Melchior Family Foundation$300K
- The Transition Accelerator$300K
- Machson Tzvi Hersh Jewish Charity Organization$294K
- Jewish Federation of Winnipeg/combined Jewish Appeal Inc$272K
Received $3.4M from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Barrie Davidson (director); Deborah Harri (director); Sandra Mielitz (director); Murray Palay (president and director); Jamie Abbott (director); Michael Susser (vice president and director); Nestor Thedorou (director); Paul Gregorio (treasurer); Jeremy Bomhof (director); Monika Ramke (assistant secretary); Debbie Rehn Doyle (secretary); Deborah Swistun (assistant secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from GiftPact Foundation Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 839545803RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.