Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara
Public foundation · ST Catharines, Ontario · BN 867105322RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,391,556) as filed with the CRA.
Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara is a public foundation based in ST Catharines, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $15.1M in revenue and $5.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $537K.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 27% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 582 qualified donees totalling $3.8M in 2024, the largest being $200K to Niagara Health Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $7.1M in 2020 to $15.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Offering grant programs: environmental grants childrens summer camp grants community grants and youth grants. Grants are awarded for equipment special projects and seed funding. The community grants program does not provide operating capital or endowment support however grants from donor-designated funds may provide operating or capital support. Grants were made in environment arts culture and education.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $15.1M | $5.4M | $180K | $284K | $3.8M | $90.2M |
| 2023 | $13.4M | $4.9M | $219K | — | $3.5M | $80.5M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $4.6M | $209K | $174K | $3.4M | — |
| 2021 | $15.1M | $4M | $306K | $255K | $2.7M | $76.3M |
| 2020 | $7.1M | $5.5M | $1.6M | $229K | $3.1M | $65.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.8M to 582 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Niagara Health Foundation$200K
- Mayholme Foundation$139K
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$100K
- Niagara Victim Crisis Support Service Inc$87K
- McNally House Hospice$83K
- Ronald McDonald House South Central Ontario$75K
- 2022 Canada Games Sport Legacy Inc.$63K
- Hospice Niagara$63K
- Ukrainian Canadian Social Services (St. Catherines) Inc.$56K
- Niagara Ukrainian Fund$56K
- ST. John the Theologian Ukrainian Catholic Church$56K
- Nativity of the Holy Mother of God$56K
- STS. Cyril & Methodius Church$56K
- Carsa Incorporated$55K
- Community CARE of West Niagara$50K
- Community CARE of West Niagara$50K
- Attachment and Trauma Treatment Centre for Healing (ATTCH) Niagara$50K
- Beamsville Church of Christ$50K
- Heart Niagara Inc.$49K
- Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority$47K
- Boys and Girls Club of Niagara$45K
- The Town of Lincoln$43K
- The Bridge Church$43K
- Niagara Foundation for Family and Children Services$42K
- Alzheimer Society of Niagara Region$41K
Received $537K from 9 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
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$435K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Natalie Apparicio-Farrell (director); Linda Boich (director); Marisa Browh (director); Bill Crumm (treasurer); Natasha Dicenzo (director); Chris Dilalla (director); Jennifer Feren (director); Damian Goulbourne (past chair); Mike Lethby (vice-chair); Michael Mann (chair); April Mitchell-Bourdreau (director); Kithio Mwwanzia (director); Don Stewart (director); Joanna Stubbs (director); Louise Veres (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 867105322RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.