The Cardinal Foundation
Public foundation · Winnipeg, Manitoba · BN 801058751RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,523,235) as filed with the CRA.
The Cardinal Foundation is a public foundation based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $8.8M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 53% 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 58% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 154 qualified donees totalling $1.4M in 2024, the largest being $123K to BC Cancer Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.7M in 2021 to $8.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The cardinal foundation continues to fund qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.8M | $1.5M | $0 | — | $1.4M | $17.2M |
| 2023 | $3.4M | $1M | — | — | $920K | $10M |
| 2022 | $3M | $675K | — | — | $604K | $197K |
| 2021 | $2.7M | $762K | — | — | $685K | $5.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.4M to 154 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- BC Cancer Foundation$123K
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada$106K
- Alberta Cancer Foundation$106K
- Women in Need Society of Calgary$50K
- The University of British Columbia$50K
- Alzheimer Society of Calgary$50K
- Star Academy's Learn to Love to Learn Foundation$39K
- Knowles Centre Inc.$32K
- Brandon University$26K
- Brandon University Foundation$25K
- United Way Of Brandon & District Inc.$21K
- St. Boniface Hospital Foundation Inc.$20K
- Manitoba Theatre for Young People Inc.$20K
- Minnedosa Pastoral Charge$19K
- Manitoba Possible Services Inc.$16K
- CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada$16K
- Westman Dreams for Kids Foundation Inc.$15K
- United Way Of Brandon & District Inc.$15K
- Samaritan House Ministries Inc.$15K
- Helping Hands Centre of Brandon Inc.$15K
- Cancercare Manitoba Foundation Inc.$15K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$15K
- The Calgary Zoological Society$15K
- Ducks Unlimited Canada - Canards Illimites Canada$15K
- Knowles Centre Inc.$15K
Received -$4,000 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ronald Malech (chair); Melanie Burt (director); Leslie Stafford (director); Sean Lawton (director); Sheila Wilson-Kowal (director - treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Cardinal Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 801058751RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.