The Catherine Donnelly Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 861653624RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,881,612) as filed with the CRA.
The Catherine Donnelly Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $9.4M in revenue and $3.9M in expenditures.
In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $80K.
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. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 56 qualified donees totalling $1.9M in 2024, the largest being $105K to Small Change Fund. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.2M in 2020 to $9.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
The Catherine Donnelly Foundation allocates its funding to a combination of programs and projects in its priority areas of Environment Housing and Civic Engagement for Social Change. It aims to promote joint action building on one another’s strengths constituencies and common experiences in pursuit of its objectives. The Catherine Donnelly Foundation supports projects that promote active citizenship democracy and personal and social transformation. The Catherine Donnelly Foundation works to accelerate the transition to a post-carbon world. The Foundation models this commitment by gran…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.4M | $3.9M | $732K | — | $2.8M | $62.4M |
| 2023 | $3.1M | $3.4M | $751K | — | $2.3M | $56.9M |
| 2022 | -$3M | $4.7M | $1.7M | — | $2.6M | $57.3M |
| 2021 | $17.8M | $3.4M | $2.1M | — | $1.1M | $65M |
| 2020 | $6.2M | $3.4M | $1.7M | — | $1.2M | $50.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.9M to 56 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Small Change Fund$105K
- Makeway Charitable Society$73K
- Finance Engage Sustain / Financer Engager Soutenir$65K
- Environment Funders Canada$50K
- Manitoba Food Charter Inc.$50K
- CHFT Charitable Fund$50K
- Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness$50K
- The Neighbourhood Land Trust$49K
- Ilitaqsiniq$48K
- Farmfolk/cityfolk Society$45K
- Wrinch Memorial Foundation$40K
- Vivre En Ville; le regroupement pour le développement urbain rural et villageois viable$40K
- Toronto Association of Neighbourhood Services$40K
- Haida Gwaii Museum Society$40K
- First United Church Community Ministry Society$40K
- Disability Alliance BC Society$40K
- Church Planting Ministries Incorporated$40K
- Pacific Immigrant Resources Society$40K
- Matthew House Ottawa$39K
- Institute for New Economics Public Interest Research Association Inc.$39K
- Saanich Community Legacy Foundation$35K
- Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development$35K
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$35K
- Women of the First Light$35K
- Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement$34K
Received $80K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$606K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Anne-Marie Jackson (chair); Gladys Yam (treasurer); Richard Morgan (vice-chair); Janet Speth (director); Sara Mainville (director); Devika Shah (secretary); Kelly Holmes (director); Sherry Yano (director); Sucheta Rajagopal (member at large); Christopher Hrynkow (director); Dallas Alderson (director); Eric Tusz-King (director); Gail Thornhill (director); Anthony Chang (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Catherine Donnelly Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 861653624RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.