The Charitable Foundation of the Ontario Grocery Industry
Public foundation · Etobicoke, Ontario · BN 126976711RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($11,426,055) as filed with the CRA.
The Charitable Foundation of the Ontario Grocery Industry is a public foundation based in Etobicoke, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $11.1M in revenue and $11.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $57K.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 91% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 26 qualified donees totalling $5.9M in 2024, the largest being $1.7M to Breakfast Club of Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 21 names.
In its own words
Gala dinner - to support kids help phone and other charities that assist children in need. Child hunger - in store program to address child hunger and coupon redemption program to support children in need.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.1M | $11.4M | $3.9M | $1.8M | $6.2M | $2.4M |
| 2023 | $9.8M | $9.7M | $1.6M | $1.9M | $5.8M | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $8.4M | $8.3M | $5.7M | $533K | $1.9M | $2.5M |
| 2021 | $8.2M | $7.8M | $5.1M | $478K | $2M | $2.4M |
| 2020 | $7.6M | $7.7M | $4.2M | $1.5M | $1.7M | $2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $5.9M to 26 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Breakfast Club of Canada$1.7M
- Kids Help Phone / Jeunesse J' Ecoute$916K
- Peterborough Child and Family Centres$478K
- Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada$434K
- YMCA of Three Rivers Foundation$422K
- Toronto Foundation for Student Success$414K
- Food4Kids Ontario$364K
- Haldimand-Norfolk Resource Education and Counselling Help$249K
- Ottawa Network for Education$160K
- Upper Canada Leger Centre for Education and Training$124K
- The Hastings and Prince Edward Learning Foundation$116K
- Community First Foundation$110K
- I Can for Kids Foundation$80K
- Community Living North Bay$64K
- Sudbury Better Beginnings Educational Fund$54K
- Algoma Family Services$51K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$48K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$46K
- Makeway Charitable Society$29K
- Board of Health for the Northwestern Health Unit (the Board)$21K
- The Children's Breakfast Clubs$20K
- Regina Food for Learning Assoc. Inc.$20K
- Food4kids Niagara$15K
- The Victoria Foundation$10K
- Victoria Rainbow Kitchen Society$10K
Received $57K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Danielle Barran (director); Jason Blake (director); John Carmichael (director); Tony Chow (director); Curtis Frank (director); Brock Furlon (director); Joe Fusco (chair); Tom Gunter (vice chair); Paul Hogan (director); Margaret Hudson (director); Darrell Jones (director); Stacey Kravitz (director); Anthony Longo (director); Dan Magliocco (director); Shaun McKenna (executive director); Michael Medline (past chair); Marie-Eve Royer (director); Karla Schlieper (director); Carmela Serebryany (director); Tom Shurrie (director); Mark Taylor (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Charitable Foundation of the Ontario Grocery Industry’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 126976711RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.