Mandarin Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Brampton, Ontario · BN 857645741RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($150,648) as filed with the CRA.
Mandarin Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Brampton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $275K in revenue and $151K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 83% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 99% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 88 qualified donees totalling $150K in 2023, the largest being $50K to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation was established to raise financial resources to fund charitable organizations and other registered charities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $275K | $151K | $146K | — | $146K | $10.4M |
| 2023 | $305K | $152K | $150K | — | $150K | $918K |
| 2022 | — | $605 | — | — | — | $766K |
| 2021 | — | $3,741 | $3,050 | — | — | $766K |
| 2020 | — | $421K | $416K | — | $359K | $770K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Granted $150K to 88 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$50K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$50K
- We Care$7,225
- Ignat Kaneff Charitable Foundation$1,650
- Haven on the Queensway$1,000
- Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto Foundation$1,000
- Greater Essex County District School Board$500
- ST. Catharines Chinese Alliance Church$500
- The Mississauga Heritage Foundation Incorporated$500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$500
- Trillium Health Partners Foundation$500
- YMCA of Greater Toronto$500
- VITA Centre$500
- Family Services of Peel$500
- Community Living Mississauga$500
- Jake's House for Autistic Children$500
- Pentecostal Church Mission in Canada / Mission de l'église de Pentecôte au Canada$500
- Burlington Rotary Community Hospice Inc.$500
- All Saints Church$500
- Communiticare Health$500
- The Cross-Cultural Community Services Association$500
- Jane-Alliance Neighbourhood Services$500
- Bellwoods Centres for Community Living Inc.$500
- Niagara Korean Presbyterian Church$500
- Lincoln County Humane Society$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
George Chiu (charman & director); Kuen Chu Chang (vice chairman & director); James Chiu (vice chairman & director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mandarin Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 857645741RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.