Patrick J McNally Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Freelton, Ontario · BN 841799984RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,628,663) as filed with the CRA.
Patrick J McNally Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Freelton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.8M in revenue and $3.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 18 qualified donees totalling $3.4M in 2024, the largest being $750K to Royal Botanical Gardens. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.2M in 2020 to $3.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Donations to various organizations to help achieve their goal and be in line with the foundation's objectives of selecting qualified donees to give donation(s) to.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.8M | $3.6M | $180K | — | $3.4M | $62.7M |
| 2023 | $4.9M | $2.8M | $162K | — | $2.6M | $56.2M |
| 2022 | $4.3M | $1.6M | $163K | — | $1.4M | $52.9M |
| 2021 | $2.7M | $1.8M | $139K | — | $1.6M | $51.2M |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $1.2M | $125K | — | $1.1M | $39.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.4M to 18 qualified donees:
- Royal Botanical Gardens$750K
- Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton$500K
- The Bruce Trail Conservancy$500K
- Hamilton Children's Choir$300K
- City of Hamilton$300K
- City of Hamilton$250K
- Hospital Family Houses of Ontario$153K
- Hamilton Naturalists' Club$150K
- The DR. Bob Kemp Hospice Foundation Inc.$100K
- YMCA of Hamilton/burlington/brantford$100K
- Greater Hamilton Food Share$100K
- ST. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation Hamilton$50K
- Greater Hamilton Food Share$50K
- The Canadian Foundation for Economic Education$50K
- Grand River Conservation Foundation$40K
- Compassion Society of Halton$20K
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada$20K
- The Baby Depot$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Elizabeth McNally (director); Graham McNally (director); Gregory McNally (director); John McNally (chairman); Michael McNally (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Patrick J McNally Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 841799984RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.