Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canada
Charitable organization · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 863841995RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($290,000) as filed with the CRA.
Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canada is a charitable organization based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $258K in revenue and $290K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $72K.
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 91% of peers.
It reported gifts to 14 qualified donees totalling $290K in 2024, the largest being $160K to Look Good Feel Better / Belle et bien dans sa peau. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation's mission is to support women living with cancer and to help put an end to violence against women by providing grants to women's shelters and supporting community outreach programs
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $258K | $290K | — | — | $290K | — |
| 2023 | $178K | $230K | — | — | $230K | — |
| 2022 | $265K | $270K | — | — | $270K | — |
| 2021 | $341K | $281K | — | — | $281K | — |
| 2020 | $275K | $200K | — | — | $198K | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $290K to 14 qualified donees:
- Look Good Feel Better / Belle et bien dans sa peau$160K
- Discovery House Family Violence Prevention Society$10K
- Strathcona Shelter Society LTD.$10K
- Maison Baldwin House$10K
- Interval House of Hamilton-Wentworth$10K
- Multi-femmes inc.$10K
- Le Centre Louise-Amelie Inc.$10K
- Yukon Women's Transition Home Society$10K
- Domestic Abuse Services-Our Lady of Good Counsel Society$10K
- Xolhemet Society$10K
- Second Stage Housing Association of Dartmouth$10K
- Yorkton Women in Need Inc$10K
- PEI Family Violence Prevention Services Inc.$10K
- YWCA Westman Women's Shelter$10K
Received $72K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Susan Timmermeister (director); Allison Levy (director); Allyson Sellers (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863841995RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.