Knights of Columbus Ontario Charity Foundation
Public foundation · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 107798100RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($774,441) as filed with the CRA.
Knights of Columbus Ontario Charity Foundation is a public foundation based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $653K in revenue and $774K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 64% from donations. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $64K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $67K in 2024, the largest being $50K to Erie Shores Health Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $379K in 2020 to $653K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Leadership training for youth encouraging religious vocations and financial support for qualified donees in ontario.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $653K | $774K | $489K | $130K | $67K | $1M |
| 2023 | $648K | $586K | $395K | $101K | $20K | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $725K | $890K | $447K | $188K | $198K | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $432K | $700K | $22K | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $379K | $460K | $312K | $18K | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, June 30, 2024
- Receipted donations$363,229
- Other gifts$51,846
- Other income$37,388
- Investment income$17,982
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $67K to 7 qualified donees:
- Erie Shores Health Foundation$50K
- Erie Shores Health Foundation$5,000
- Our Lady Seat of Wisdom Academy for Studies in Christian Culture$4,400
- Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation$4,000
- Compassionate Community Care$2,520
- Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Toronto in Canada$1,000
- Niagara Falls Community Outreach$500
Received $64K from 28 charities:
- Knights of Columbus Canada Charities Inc.$32K
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Ottawa-Cornwall$12K
- Sudbury #10888 Foundation$2,436
- ST John Vianney Parish Council No 10370 Charitable Welfare Trust$2,070
- ST. Joseph's Council No. 6361 Charitable Welfare Trust$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,937
- Barrie Council No 1626 Charitable Welfare Trust$1,380
- Monsignor Gerard Breen Charitable Trust$1,380
- Conseil Fatima No. 1398 Fidéicommis De Charité$1,380
- ST Jude Oshawa Community Centre$1,380
- Conseil ST-Felix de Valois #9929$1,230
- ST John Vianney Parish Council No 10370 Charitable Welfare Trust$1,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$954
- Flamborough (waterdown) Council No 10091 Charitable Welfare$840
- Marian Council 3881 Charitable Trust$800
- Father Walsh Knights of Columbus Council 8911 Charitable Trust$690
- ST. Joseph Council No. 8715 Charitable Welfare Trust$345
- Father Bernard O'Donnell Council No 2110 Charitable Trust$145
- Owen Sound Knights of Columbus Council No 2092 Charitable Trust$140
- Ernest J Wolff Council No 798 Charitable Welfare Trust$40
- Father Cummings Council No. 2042 Charitable Trust$40
- Conseil Frère André 8163 Fidéicommis de Charité$40
- STS. Peter & Paul Council No. 11337 Charitable Welfare Trust$40
- ST Jude Oshawa Community Centre$40
- ST. Michael Parish Council No. 10102 Charitable Welfare Trust$40
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bruce Poulin (president); Earle Depasse (director); David Gelinas (director); Marcel Lemmon (director); Joseph Bodnar (treasurer); Henry Miller (director); Marcel Damphousse (state chaplain).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Knights of Columbus Ontario Charity Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107798100RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.