Kenneth M. Molson Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118979525RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,718,265) as filed with the CRA.
Kenneth M. Molson Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.7M in revenue and $1.7M 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 49% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 21 qualified donees totalling $1.5M in 2024, the largest being $276K to Carleton University. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.6M in 2020 to $4.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Donations to qualified donees in the fields of wildlife preservation and aeronautical engineering
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.7M | $1.7M | — | — | $1.5M | $27M |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $1.4M | — | — | $1.2M | $24M |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $5.4M | — | — | $850K | $22.3M |
| 2021 | $5.2M | $950K | — | — | $741K | $26.5M |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $834K | — | — | $655K | $22.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.5M to 21 qualified donees:
- Carleton University$276K
- Canadian Museum of Nature Foundation Fondation du Musée Canadien de la Nature$229K
- Canadahelps Canadon$200K
- University of Guelph$128K
- University of Toronto$100K
- Universite du Quebec a Rimouski$100K
- University of Windsor$75K
- York University$50K
- Ontario Nature Inc.$50K
- WCS Wildlife Conservation Society Canada$50K
- Canadian Warplane Heritage$35K
- Toronto Metropolitan University$35K
- Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation Foundation$25K
- ST Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences/l'institut des Sciences Environmentales du Fleuve Saint-Laurent$20K
- Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre$20K
- Wilder Institute$20K
- Queen's University at Kingston$20K
- Toronto Wildlife Centre$20K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$15K
- Hummingbirds Canada: the National Hummingbird Project$7,500
- The British Columbia Conservation Foundation$5,150
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Brunton (director); Robert Eldridge (president); Michelle Nickel (secretary); Jessica Speedie (director); Rebecca McKinnon (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kenneth M. Molson Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118979525RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.