Noelle's Gift to Children
Public foundation · Sarnia, Ontario · BN 828700583RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($510,842) as filed with the CRA.
Noelle's Gift to Children is a public foundation based in Sarnia, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $593K in revenue and $511K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 78% from donations, 15% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $90K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 8 qualified donees totalling $211K in 2024, the largest being $100K to Lambton Kent District School Board. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $360K in 2020 to $593K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Provides funds to the elementary & secondary schools to ensure students have the daily essentials to attend school. Some students that are less fortunate attend with not the proper clothing or come with an empty stomach. We want to ensure these students receive urgent items to be able to come to school. We also provide funding to the student nutrition program that provides healthy snacks to over 9000 student in sarnia-lambton. We have over 70 volunteers registered that help with our fundraising events which includes bingos galas and fitness days. As well the assist with the pay it forward …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $593K | $511K | $64K | $213K | $211K | $872K |
| 2023 | $444K | $511K | $137K | $112K | $240K | $789K |
| 2022 | $534K | $298K | $16K | $84K | $286K | $751K |
| 2021 | $646K | $285K | $2,641 | $90K | $268K | $639K |
| 2020 | $360K | $210K | $5,166 | $75K | $202K | $370K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $211K to 8 qualified donees:
Received $90K from 12 charities:
- The Judith & Norman Alix Foundation$50K
- United Way of Sarnia-Lambton$22K
- Sarnia Community Foundation$8,314
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,621
- ST. Clair Catholic District School Board$1,133
- Les Soeurs de la Visitation d' Ottawa$1,000
- Canada Gives$1,000
- Hashtag Charitable Foundation$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$566
- ST. Michael Parish Council No. 10102 Charitable Welfare Trust$500
- Canadahelps Canadon$494
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lynn Paquette (chair); Chris M Barneveld (director); Kevin Cannon (director); Briony Sue Serratore (director); Cathy Robertson (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Noelle's Gift to Children’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 828700583RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.