Mackenzie Investments Charitable Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 868400425RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,013,483) as filed with the CRA.
Mackenzie Investments Charitable Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 82% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $434K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 95% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 34 qualified donees totalling $1M in 2024, the largest being $46K to North York Harvest Food Bank. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The foundation supports charities with a focus on: social well-being and welfare in canada particularly for the benefit of underprivileged challenged and sick children youth and young adults with a special focus on children and youth at high risk. The foundation carefully reviews the following factors when making its granting decisions: 1. The objective of the charity. The foundation focuses its grant primarily on social service organizations with a focus on children and youth especially those at risk. 2. The size of the charity. The foundation focuses primarily on small-to-medium s…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $1M | — | — | $1M | $4.5M |
| 2023 | $904K | $692K | — | $15K | $677K | $4.1M |
| 2022 | $1M | $795K | — | — | $795K | $3.7M |
| 2021 | $966K | $650K | — | — | $650K | $4.1M |
| 2020 | $743K | $665K | — | — | $665K | $3.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1M to 34 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- North York Harvest Food Bank$46K
- Nanny Angel Network Inc.$46K
- Jessie's The June Callwood Centre for Young Women$46K
- Saint Michaels Mission$45K
- Jennifer Ashleigh Children's Charity$40K
- Weston Frontlines Centre$40K
- The Gatehouse Child Abuse Investigation and Support Site$36K
- The Cedarbrook Society$36K
- Childhood Cancer Canada Foundation$36K
- Furniture Bank$36K
- Scarborough Women's Centre$35K
- L'Arche Toronto Homes Inc.$35K
- Dress for Success Toronto$35K
- Hospice Toronto$33K
- The Teresa Group$33K
- Gilda's Club Greater Toronto$33K
- Moorelands Community Services$30K
- Boundless Adventures Association$30K
- Sistema Toronto Academy$26K
- Creating Together$26K
- Autism Dog Services Inc.$25K
- British Columbia Guide Dog Services$25K
- Unity Charity$25K
- Trails Youth Initiatives Inc.$25K
- Rainbow Railroad$25K
Received $434K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joanna Barsky (director & secretary); Melanie Smith (director); Christine Coyle (director); Herman Facchinelli (director & treasurer); Andrew McKinney (director); Andrea Hallett (director & president); Jennifer Iozzo (director); Jackie Laser (director); Jennifer Roynon (director); Heather Anderson (director); Ashley Vandertorn (director); William Aldridge (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mackenzie Investments Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 868400425RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.