The Citrine Foundation of Canada
Private foundation · Bala, Ontario · BN 849854831RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($547,697) as filed with the CRA.
The Citrine Foundation of Canada is a private foundation based in Bala, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty.
Compared with 412 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 20 qualified donees totalling $308K in 2024, the largest being $55K to Women's Brain Health Initiative. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The purpose of the corporation is to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therfrom from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered charities or to other qualified donees under the income tax act (canada) and that are located in canada
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | — | $548K | $1,312 | — | $308K | $482K |
| 2023 | $67 | $1.1M | $1,599 | — | $838K | $1M |
| 2022 | $2 | $4.3M | $3,621 | — | $4M | $2.1M |
| 2021 | $3.9M | $2.2M | — | — | $1.9M | $6.4M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $3.9M | — | — | $3.7M | $4.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $308K to 20 qualified donees:
- Women's Brain Health Initiative$55K
- Canuck Place Children's Hospice Foundation$50K
- Ontario Shores Foundation for Mental Health$27K
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Society of Canada Société Canadienne de la Sclérose Latérale Amyotrophique$25K
- Southlake Health Foundation$25K
- Asthma Canada/Asthme Canada$25K
- ErinoakKids Centre for Treatment and Development$15K
- Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inc.$15K
- Queen's University at Kingston$12K
- The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art$10K
- Project Hostel$10K
- Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation$5,000
- British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation$5,000
- The Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba Inc.$5,000
- The Sandbox Project Charity$5,000
- Jewish Federation of British Columbia$5,000
- I W K Health Centre Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The Kensington Health Foundation$5,000
- Youth Without Shelter Terra House North Toronto Emergency Residence and Referral Agency$4,000
- Jewish National Fund of Canada$118
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lon Hall (chairman); Edvard Ryder (director); Angelo Moretti (director); Zak Bhamani (secretary); Joanne Korten (ceo/president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Citrine Foundation of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 849854831RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.