Hallmark Giving
Private foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 827252859RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($160,874) as filed with the CRA.
Hallmark Giving is a private foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $187K in revenue and $161K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 68% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 20 qualified donees totalling $155K in 2024, the largest being $25K to Restoring Hope Ministries. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The foundation supports several local organizations with substantial funding initiative over approximately a 3 year time frame. The foundation also supports various charities that have a direct impact on the community they serve and are most in need of private funding.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $187K | $161K | — | — | $154K | $112K |
| 2023 | $162K | $133K | — | — | $119K | $84K |
| 2022 | $160K | $151K | — | — | $151K | $59K |
| 2021 | $155K | $215K | — | — | $210K | $50K |
| 2020 | $254K | $289K | — | — | $285K | $109K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $155K to 20 qualified donees:
- Restoring Hope Ministries$25K
- Operation Come Home$25K
- Woodgreen Red Door Family Shelter$15K
- Ontario Shores Foundation for Mental Health$15K
- Help Lesotho$10K
- The Shoebox Project for Shelters$8,000
- Youth Haven (barrie)$5,000
- Youth Emergency Shelter of Peterborough Incorporated$5,000
- The Good Companions$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,000
- Luke's Place Support and Resource Centre for Women and Children$5,000
- Harvest House Ministries of Ottawa-Carleton$5,000
- The Caring and Sharing Exchange$5,000
- Blake Boultbee Youth Outreach Service$5,000
- Basket Brigade Canada$5,000
- 360Kids Support Services$5,000
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$3,000
- Clarington East Economic Support$2,000
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$1,000
- Special Olympics Ontario Inc.$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Marc Poirier (director); Ken McLauchlan (president); Mary Jane Decloux (secretary/treasurer); Paula Carney (director); Sherry Douglas (director); Ansel Clarke (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hallmark Giving’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 827252859RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.