Halton Learning Foundation
Public foundation · Burlington, Ontario · BN 889975223RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,350,774) as filed with the CRA.
Halton Learning Foundation is a public foundation based in Burlington, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 29% from donations, 54% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $735K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $701K in 2024, the largest being $701K to Halton District School Board. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The Halton Learning Foundation was established to support quality education for students of the Halton District School Board. HLF provides emergency funds for students in need post-secondary scholarships and grants to assist schools that have classroom needs beyond core education funding.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $1.4M | $189K | $42K | $889K | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.1M | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2022 | $1M | $1M | $859K | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $869K | $706K | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $903K | $688K | $26K | — | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $701K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $735K from 16 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$202K
- Canadahelps Canadon$202K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$120K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$74K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$20K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$18K
- Oakville Community Foundation$17K
- Bailie Family Foundation$15K
- Burlington Community Foundation$10K
- Vijay Anand Foundation$3,000
- The Gift of Giving Back$2,082
- Burlington Concert Band and 'pops' Orchestra$1,400
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$100
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$38
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$345K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Damian Andrews (director); Nick Klip (treasurer); Marie-Therese Houde (director); Bob Elliot (chair); Marc Clare (ceo); Richard McAuliffe (director); Vase Sarmah (director); Rob Smith (director); Sonia Dayal (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Halton Learning Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889975223RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.