Niagara Foundation for Family and Children Services
Public foundation · ST Catharines, Ontario · BN 869389148RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,049,518) as filed with the CRA.
Niagara Foundation for Family and Children Services 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 $984K in revenue and $1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 41% from donations, 36% from other charities. In 2024, 27 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $564K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $716K in 2024, the largest being $716K to Children's Aid Society of the Niagara Region. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $475K in 2020 to $984K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The foundation undertakes fundraising activities to raise money for various projects for the children's aid society of the niagara region operating as family and children's services niagara.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $984K | $1M | $29K | $244K | $716K | $2.3M |
| 2023 | $915K | $625K | $16K | $236K | $304K | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $485K | $375K | $54K | $13K | $198K | $2M |
| 2021 | $499K | $451K | $58K | $5,041 | $283K | $2M |
| 2020 | $475K | $337K | $58K | $2,596 | $164K | $1.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $716K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $564K from 27 charities:
- Dasaka Foundation$80K
- The Joyce Family Foundation$80K
- The Branscombe Family Foundation$67K
- Canadahelps Canadon$53K
- Canadahelps Canadon$53K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$42K
- John Deere Foundation of Canada$25K
- Wise Guys Charity Fund$25K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- The Charles & Florence Martin Foundation$22K
- Erwin Taylor Charitable Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$15K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$15K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$11K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$7,000
- Abundance Canada$5,000
- The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation$5,000
- The George Lunan Foundation$5,000
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$2,011
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$1,260
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$1,122
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$1,000
- Niagara Catholic District School Board$714
- Niagara Region Police Association Charitable Fund$600
- Fenwick Pastoral Charge$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Chris Accursi (secretary); Anna Bozza (director); Yar Diduch (treasurer); Carline Polgrabia (president); Rhianon Burkholder (vice-president); Richard Madume (director); Lorraine Jensen (director); Rick Dritsacos (director); Nina Jain-Sheehan (director); Robert Miller (director); Jashan Jayan (director); Katie Hutchinson (director); Joe Deman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Niagara Foundation for Family and Children Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 869389148RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.