Isles Foundation Incorporated
Private foundation · Saint John, New Brunswick · BN 822635470RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,705,726) as filed with the CRA.
Isles Foundation Incorporated is a private foundation based in Saint John, New Brunswick, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.9M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 27% 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 42% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 21 qualified donees totalling $1.4M in 2024, the largest being $673K to Friends of Mass General Canada Inc.. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The foundation provides financial support to qualified donees principally in the areas of education health history and culture and community projects.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.9M | $1.7M | — | — | $1.4M | $36.5M |
| 2023 | $5.4M | $1M | — | — | $742K | $32.3M |
| 2022 | $252K | $1.8M | — | — | $1.6M | $27.9M |
| 2021 | $4.2M | $905K | — | — | $685K | $29.5M |
| 2020 | $6M | $2.9M | — | — | $2.7M | $26.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.4M to 21 qualified donees:
- Friends of Mass General Canada Inc.$673K
- Kids Help Phone / Jeunesse J' Ecoute$250K
- Lahey Clinic Canadian Foundation$170K
- Saint John Regional Hospital Foundation Inc.$63K
- ST. Joseph's Hospital Foundation of Saint John Inc./la Fondation de l'Hopital ST. Joseph de Saint Jean Inc.$55K
- University of Oxford - Magdalen College$54K
- Dalhousie University$50K
- Beaverbrook Art Gallery$25K
- Holland College Foundation Inc.$15K
- The Boys and Girls Club of Saint John Inc.$10K
- Hospice of Greater Saint John Inc.$10K
- Dartmouth General Hospital Charitable Foundation$10K
- President and Fellows of Harvard College$8,478
- Shining Horizons Therapeutic Riding Association Inc.$7,500
- Yarmouth Hospital Foundation$5,000
- The Charlotte County Hospital Foundation Inc$5,000
- South Shore Health Foundation$5,000
- Brown University$4,946
- SJHS Alumni Fund Incorporated$3,500
- Rothesay Netherwood School$3,500
- Operation Feed Saint John Inc.$2,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Irving (co-president); Anne Oxley (co-president); C. Paul Smith (secretary); Alanna Waberski (assistant secretry); Lloyd Foote (treasurer); Michael Chisholm (assistant treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Isles Foundation Incorporated’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 822635470RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.