John Deere Foundation of Canada
Private foundation · Grimsby, Ontario · BN 118974914RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($971,590) as filed with the CRA.
John Deere Foundation of Canada is a private foundation based in Grimsby, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $2.8M in revenue and $972K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 71% 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 83% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 53 qualified donees totalling $956K in 2024, the largest being $50K to Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $143K in 2020 to $2.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
See note 1 of the attached financial statments
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.8M | $972K | — | — | $956K | $6.1M |
| 2023 | $2.2M | $706K | — | — | $692K | $4.3M |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $1M | — | — | $513K | $2.8M |
| 2021 | $110K | $324K | — | — | $289K | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $143K | $301K | — | — | $297K | $1.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $956K to 53 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service Foundation$50K
- Harvest Manitoba Inc.$50K
- Weyburn & District Hospital Foundation Inc.$40K
- Faith Food Bank Society$40K
- The Children's Family House Society of B.C.$35K
- The Do More Agriculture Foundation$30K
- Right To Food$30K
- Canada Recess Guardians Inc.$30K
- Breakthrough T1D Canada/Percée DT1 Canada$30K
- Agriculture in the Classroom Canada$30K
- Stevenson Memorial Hospital Foundation$25K
- Ontario Society for Crippled Children$25K
- Niagara Foundation for Family and Children Services$25K
- Moisson Rimouski-Neigette Inc$25K
- Kamloops Food Bank Society$25K
- Hospitals of Regina Foundation Inc.$25K
- Fondation SABSA$25K
- Comptoir Alimentaire de Sept-Iles$25K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Niagara$25K
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$20K
- United Way of Regina$20K
- United Way Niagara$20K
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$20K
- United Way British Columbia$20K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$20K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephanie Antonucci (director); Kristine Crowley (director); Gordon Culp (director); Gregory Tooke (director); Laura Eberlin (director); Diana Holst (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from John Deere Foundation of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118974914RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.