Muskoka Community Foundation
Public foundation · Bracebridge, Ontario · BN 840597751RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($398,573) as filed with the CRA.
Muskoka Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Bracebridge, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $591K in revenue and $399K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from donations. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $87K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 61% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 81% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 54 qualified donees totalling $295K in 2024, the largest being $48K to Mind-Aid. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Promoting community awareness leadership and vitality through facilitating individual and group educational opportunities and discussion forums throughout the district of muskoka to help build and foster smart and caring communities. Promoting the benefits of endowments and endowed giving as a way to provide stability and allow for long term planning and support for local charities. Promoting a variety of ways in which individuals and groups can engage in philanthropy. Administering donor advised grants advising and administering flowthrough grants and grants to communities. Grants were di…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $591K | $399K | $75K | $7,338 | $295K | $2.3M |
| 2023 | $909K | $635K | $31K | $1,559 | $591K | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $96K | $265K | $29K | $4,184 | $214K | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $634K | $303K | $25K | $281 | $266K | $2M |
| 2020 | $747K | $317K | $33K | $225 | $271K | $1.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $295K to 54 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Mind-Aid$48K
- Hospice Muskoka$32K
- Manna Food Bank of Bracebridge Inc$20K
- The Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology$15K
- Trillium Lakelands District School Board$14K
- Gravenhurst Against Poverty G.A.P.$12K
- Township of Lake of Bays$12K
- The Children's Foundation of Muskoka$9,849
- Huntsville District Memorial Hospital Foundation$7,800
- Lake of Bays Heritage Foundation$7,500
- Community YWCA of Muskoka$7,300
- Muskoka Victim Services$7,000
- Dorset Community Partnership Fund$6,000
- Haliburton Highlands Health Services Foundation$5,018
- Town of Huntsville$5,000
- Niagara College of Applied Arts and Technology$5,000
- Northern College of Applied Arts and Technology$5,000
- Collingwood General & Marine Hospital Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Federation of University Women - Muskoka Charitable Trust Fund$5,000
- Queen's University at Kingston$4,500
- Gravenhurst High School Bursary Fund$4,000
- The Sir Sandford Fleming College of Applied Arts and Technology$4,000
- Fanshawe College of Applied Arts & Technology$4,000
- Prince Edward Learning Centre$3,100
- Trent University$3,000
Received $87K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$25K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
William Fee (treasurer); Glen Norton (chair); Marily Jeffrey (director); Robert Collins (treasurer); Kim Doughty (director); Lynn Decaro (executive director); Ruth Nishikawa (secretary); Coel Balmer (director); Tina Killbourne (vice chair); Valarie Fleck (director); Richard Hay (director); Stuart Mackinnon (director); Larry Jackson (director); Guy Burry (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Muskoka Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 840597751RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.