The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119220515RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($9,888,635) as filed with the CRA.
The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $37.6M in revenue and $9.9M in expenditures.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 229 qualified donees totalling $9.8M in 2024, the largest being $700K to The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Donating funds to other registered charities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $37.6M | $9.9M | — | — | $9.8M | $223.3M |
| 2023 | $22.4M | $10.3M | — | — | $10.2M | $195.6M |
| 2022 | -$29.4M | $6.9M | — | — | $6.9M | $183.5M |
| 2021 | $45.6M | $5.6M | — | — | $5.6M | $219.7M |
| 2020 | $28M | $5.4M | — | — | $5.4M | $179.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $9.8M to 229 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$700K
- Canadian Opera Company$550K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$500K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$400K
- The National Ballet of Canada/le Ballet National du Canada$250K
- Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness$250K
- Soulpepper Theatre Company$200K
- Regional Food Distribution Association of Northwestern Ontario$200K
- Queen's University at Kingston$200K
- Pathways to Education Canada/Passeport pour ma réussite Canada$200K
- Food Banks Mississauga$175K
- Second Harvest Canada$150K
- Art Gallery of Ontario$150K
- Habitat for Humanity Greater Toronto Area$120K
- Woodgreen Red Door Family Shelter$100K
- Up With Women$100K
- The Toronto Public Library Foundation$100K
- The Rekai Centres$100K
- Autism Society Ontario$90K
- Scott Mission$75K
- North York Harvest Food Bank$75K
- The Food Bank of York Region$75K
- Deafblind Ontario Services$75K
- Right To Food$75K
- Street Health Community Nursing Foundation$70K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Vanessa Morgan (director & chair); Jonathan Morgan (director & vice-chair); Elizabeth Dalzell (director); Greg Eckel (treasurer); Charlene Storozuk (director); Crystal Blowes (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119220515RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.