Mierins Family Foundation La Fondation de la Famille Mierins
Private foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 730451481RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($626,498) as filed with the CRA.
Mierins Family Foundation La Fondation de la Famille Mierins is a private foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.9M in revenue and $626K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 63% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 54% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 12 qualified donees totalling $551K in 2024, the largest being $250K to The Ottawa Hospital Foundation/la Fondation de l'Hopital d'Ottawa. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $932K in 2020 to $4.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The foundation disbursed funds to various qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.9M | $626K | — | — | $551K | $14.2M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $619K | — | — | $556K | $10M |
| 2022 | $483K | $2.1M | — | — | $590K | $9.6M |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $603K | — | — | $530K | $11.2M |
| 2020 | $932K | $890K | — | — | $815K | $10.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Other gifts$3,044,459
- Other income$1,153,081
- Investment income$471,234
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 $551K to 12 qualified donees:
- The Ottawa Hospital Foundation/la Fondation de l'Hopital d'Ottawa$250K
- The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation$200K
- Senators Community Foundation$20K
- OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa$15K
- The Eastern Ontario & Western Quebec Christmas Cheer Foundation/la Fondation Esprit de Noel de l'Est de l'Ontario et l'Ouest du Québec$15K
- Kids Kicking Cancer Canada Corp.$10K
- Christmas Cheer Foundation$10K
- Senators Community Foundation$10K
- Senators Community Foundation$10K
- The Auxiliairy of the Sir Mortimer B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital$5,000
- Senators Community Foundation$5,000
- Lakeshore General Hospital Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lisa Mierins (director); Arnie Mierins (director); Victoria Mierins (director); Patrick Bourque (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mierins Family Foundation La Fondation de la Famille Mierins’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 730451481RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.