The Canadian Canoe Museum
Charitable organization · Peterborough, Ontario · BN 133781039RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,316,623) as filed with the CRA.
The Canadian Canoe Museum is a charitable organization based in Peterborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.9M in revenue and $3.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 47% from donations, 16% from government, 27% from other charities. In 2024, 25 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.8M.
Compared with 414 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 9% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 75% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.4M in 2020 to $5.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
Workshops summer camps tours events memberships education group admission to musuem
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.9M | $3.3M | $1.5M | $151K | — | $39M |
| 2023 | $9.1M | $1.9M | — | — | — | $36.5M |
| 2022 | $16.9M | $1.6M | — | — | — | $30.1M |
| 2021 | $10.4M | $2.9M | — | — | — | $14M |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $8.4M | — | — | — | $6.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.8M from 25 charities:
- Weston Family Foundation$1M
- Carthy Foundation$136K
- Aqueduct Foundation$110K
- Canadahelps Canadon$105K
- Canadahelps Canadon$105K
- The Harold E. Ballard Foundation$100K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$75K
- The Gordon and Lorraine Gibson Family Foundation$50K
- The Dalglish Family Foundation$50K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$11K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation$10K
- Pitblado Foundation$10K
- The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation$6,000
- The Midloch Foundation$5,000
- The Catherine and Fredrik Eaton Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Allen Family Foundation$5,000
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$5,000
- Toronto Foundation$2,750
- Hamilton Community Foundation$2,250
- Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$968
- Peter Wood Family Foundation$500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$230
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kate Farnell (treasurer); Victoria Grant (past chair); Garth Wallbridge (director); Deborah Jacobs (director); Tim Rutherford (director); Jenny Ingram (director); Kevin Malone (chair); Ellisa Johnson (director); Jocelyn Brown (director); Bryan Buttigieg (director); Guillaume Rivest (director); Doris Stammi (director); Brian Groves (director); Meredith Brown (director); Margaret Beckel (director); Maclean Chris (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Canadian Canoe Museum’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 133781039RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.