Mississauga Foundation
Public foundation · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 892395112RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,886,703) as filed with the CRA.
Mississauga Foundation is a public foundation based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.5M in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $73K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 48% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 104 qualified donees totalling $1.1M in 2024, the largest being $59K to The Governing Council of the University of Toronto. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
First the Foundation brings donors to the table as community builders helping them formulate and realize their philanthropic goals matching their interest and concerns with community needs and organizations and finding innovative and responsible ways to give their investments lasting impact. Second the Foundation takes the broadest view of what a community is and what it needs to succeed. This is why grants from the Foundation support everything from shelter sustenance and care for those in need to recreation the arts and the environment. Third the Foundation takes the long term view…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.5M | $1.9M | $529K | $93K | $1.1M | $30.9M |
| 2023 | $5.3M | $3M | $491K | $93K | $2.2M | $27.8M |
| 2022 | $926K | $3.2M | $435K | $73K | $2.5M | $25.8M |
| 2021 | $5.9M | $1.7M | $422K | $69K | $1.1M | $28.1M |
| 2020 | $4.9M | $3.6M | $398K | $78K | $2.9M | $24.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.1M to 104 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$59K
- The Riverwood Conservancy$58K
- Food Banks Mississauga$57K
- Children's Aid Foundation Ontario$38K
- Lakeshore Community Outreach Centre Inc.$36K
- Ecosource Mississauga$36K
- Our Place Peel$32K
- The Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Drop-In Centre$30K
- VITA Centre$28K
- Options Mississauga Print and Office Services$28K
- Trillium Health Partners Foundation$28K
- ErinoakKids Centre for Treatment and Development$25K
- Afghan Women's Organization Refugee and Immigrant Services$25K
- Sikhs Serving Canada Association$25K
- Social Planning Council of Peel$25K
- Acorn to Oak Youth Services$23K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peel York Inc.$22K
- The Canadian Jesuit Missions$21K
- Wellspring Cancer Support Foundation/fondation Wellspring pour les Personnes Atteintes de Cancer$21K
- Everymind Mental Health Services$21K
- Toronto Wildlife Centre$20K
- The Peel Learning Foundation$20K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$20K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$19K
- Scientists in School$18K
Received $73K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$356K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Darren Coleman (director); Jennifer Hilborn (director); Jeffery Rolke (director); Patrick Johnston (treasurer); Tanya Mushynski (director); Keith Farlinger (director); Adam Marsella (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mississauga Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892395112RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.