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.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Investment income$2,276,504
- Receipted donations$201,336
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
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.