McMichael Canadian Art Foundation
Public foundation · Kleinburg, Ontario · BN 897703765RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,767,674) as filed with the CRA.
McMichael Canadian Art Foundation is a public foundation based in Kleinburg, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $3.7M in revenue and $2.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 26% from donations, 38% from other charities. In 2024, 39 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.7M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 49% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $2.3M in 2024, the largest being $2.3M to The McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $885K in 2020 to $3.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The mcmichael canadian art foundation is a public foundation that raises funds for and disburses funds to the mcmichael canadian art collection to support exhibitions programs collections operations and capital improvements.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.7M | $2.8M | — | $270K | $2.3M | $2.3M |
| 2023 | $4.2M | $4.4M | — | $79K | $4.2M | $2.4M |
| 2022 | $2.2M | $1.3M | — | — | $1.1M | $2M |
| 2021 | $3M | $309K | — | — | $298K | $9.7M |
| 2020 | $885K | $1.6M | — | — | $1.5M | $6.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.3M to 1 qualified donee:
- The McMichael Canadian Art Collection$2.3M
Received $1.7M from 39 charities:
- D.R. Sobey Foundation$355K
- Clench House Foundation$350K
- The Rand Alexander Lomas Family Foundation$300K
- The Schulich Foundation$100K
- The McCleave Family Foundation$55K
- The Vered Foundation$50K
- The Appleton Charitable Foundation$50K
- The Thor E and Nicole Eaton Family Charitable Foundation$50K
- Toronto Foundation$31K
- Aqueduct Foundation$30K
- Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan Family Foundation$30K
- The Anderson Family Foundation$25K
- The DH Gales Family Charitable Foundation of Toronto$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- Weston Family Foundation$20K
- The Shen Family Charitable Foundation$20K
- The McLean Foundation$20K
- THE IRA GLUSKIN AND MAXINE GRANOVSKY GLUSKIN CHARITABLE FOUNdation$14K
- The Polar Foundation$10K
- The Polar Foundation$10K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$10K
- The Dragonfly Fund$10K
- The Murray Frum Foundation$10K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$270K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nathalie Mercure (director); Laura Barclay (director); Laura Mirabella (director); Patrick Pelliccione (director); Andrew Dunn (chair); Mark Bursey (vice-chair); Christopher Bredt (treasurer); Paul Bailey (director); Andrea Boyd (director); Carl Spiess (director); Paul Manias (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from McMichael Canadian Art Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 897703765RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.