John Patrick Colfer Family Foundation
Private foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 829032986RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,181,211) as filed with the CRA.
John Patrick Colfer Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.3M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 69% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 41 qualified donees totalling $1.1M in 2024, the largest being $95K to Catholic Missions in Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $482K in 2020 to $2.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Throughout the year disbursements were made by the foundation to charities across canada.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.1M | $17.3M |
| 2023 | $674K | $1.2M | — | — | $1.1M | $14.6M |
| 2022 | $509K | $177K | — | — | $134K | $13.9M |
| 2021 | $369K | $299K | — | — | $258K | $15M |
| 2020 | $482K | $240K | — | — | $139K | $12.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.1M to 41 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Catholic Missions in Canada$95K
- Le Bon Dieu dans la Rue Organisation pour Jeunes Adultes$60K
- Pillars Trust Fund inc.$55K
- La corporation épiscopale catholique romaine de Valleyfield$50K
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$50K
- Old Brewery Mission Foundation / Fondation Mission Old Brewery$50K
- Fondation québécoise des Vétérans/Quebec Veterans Foundation$45K
- Émile Léger Fondation /Jules and Paul-Émile Léger Foundation$45K
- Les Grands Freres et les Grandes Soeurs de l'Ouest de l'Ile Big Brothers an Big Sisters of West Island$45K
- Douglas mental health university institute foundation$40K
- St. Mary's Hospital Foundation$35K
- West-island community shares$25K
- Missionaries of Charity Inc.$25K
- La Fondation du refuge pour femmes Chez Doris Inc. Chez Doris Women's Shelter Foundation Inc.$25K
- Concordia University-Universite Concordia$25K
- Societe des Missions-Etrangeres de la Province de Quebec$25K
- Société Se ST. Vincent de Paul$20K
- The Legion National Foundation$20K
- Missing Children's Network Canada$20K
- Last Post Fund$20K
- Organisation Catholique Canadienne pour le Développement et la Paix$20K
- The Catholic Children's Aid Foundation$20K
- Fondation Refuge des Jeunes de Montreal$20K
- Moisson Sud-Ouest$20K
- YMCAS of Québec Foundation$20K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Colfer (president); Maria Colfer (director); David Colfer (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from John Patrick Colfer Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 829032986RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.