Morden Area Foundation Inc
Public foundation · Morden, Manitoba · BN 139636914RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($323,595) as filed with the CRA.
Morden Area Foundation Inc is a public foundation based in Morden, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $2.6M in revenue and $324K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations, 46% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $27K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 31% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 92% of that peer group. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 25 qualified donees totalling $211K in 2024, the largest being $77K to Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre Inc.. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $200K in 2020 to $2.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Provides financial support for various charitable education cultural and recreational groups in morden mb and the surrounding area. Donations are collected and held in perpetuity and the annual investment income is utilized to pay approved grants.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $324K | $42K | $7,061 | $211K | $6.4M |
| 2023 | $419K | $206K | $152K | $5,720 | — | $90K |
| 2022 | $323K | $180K | $132K | $5,214 | — | $80K |
| 2021 | $237K | $208K | $202K | $5,800 | — | $4.3M |
| 2020 | $200K | $192K | $187K | $5,887 | — | $3.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $211K to 25 qualified donees:
- Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre Inc.$77K
- Western School Division No 47$26K
- Many Hands Resource Centre Inc.$13K
- Assiniboine Community College$12K
- RM of Stanley$10K
- Western School Division No 47$10K
- The University of Manitoba$9,550
- City of Morden$9,524
- Morden Senior Citizens Friendship Centre Inc.$9,357
- Manitoba Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum Incorporated$4,652
- Boundary Trails Health Centre Foundation Inc.$4,156
- The Child and Family Services of Central Manitoba Foundationinc$4,000
- South Central Cancer Resource Inc.$3,407
- Red River College Polytechnic$3,000
- South Central Regional Library$2,485
- Youth for Christ Morden Inc.$2,462
- Morden Caring & Sharing$2,210
- United Way Pembina Valley Inc.$2,018
- Pembina Valley Humane Society Inc.$2,000
- Morden U18 Female Soccer$1,640
- Lakeland College$1,200
- Pembina Threshermen's Museum Inc.$1,182
- Robertson College$500
- Western School Division No 47$340
- Pembina Hills Arts Council Inc.$321
Received $27K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$15K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Friesen (treasurer); Robert McCullough (director); Phyllis Loewen (director); Tio Bellisario (director); Sasha Pashchenko (director); Sue Nelson (chair); Brad Ritchie (director); Lenore Laverty (director); Zainab Zubair (director); Elmhar Castillo (director); Yvonne Stoesz (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Morden Area Foundation Inc’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 139636914RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.