The Clematis Foundation
Private foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 836104752RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,165,365) as filed with the CRA.
The Clematis Foundation is a private foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.3M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% 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 92% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 30 qualified donees totalling $3.2M in 2024, the largest being $1.9M to The Ottawa Jewish Community School. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.6M in 2020 to $3.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation provides support to various charitable organizations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $3.2M | — | — | $3.2M | $2.1M |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.4M | — | — | $1.4M | $1.9M |
| 2022 | $566K | $1.7M | — | — | $1.7M | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.2M | $2.9M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $804K | — | — | $801K | $2.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.2M to 30 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Ottawa Jewish Community School$1.9M
- National Gallery of Canada Foundation/fondation du Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada$430K
- Jewish Federation of Ottawa$151K
- The Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation$150K
- National Arts Centre Foundation/fondation Centre National des Arts$125K
- The Ottawa Hospital Foundation/la Fondation de l'Hopital d'Ottawa$100K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$91K
- The Museum of Jewish Montreal$30K
- Congregation Machzikei Hadas$25K
- Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health Inc$25K
- The Ottawa Food Bank/la Banque d'Alimentation d'Ottawa$20K
- Ottawa Salus Corporation$20K
- The Ottawa Art Gallery$15K
- The Olde Forge Community Resource Centre$15K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$15K
- Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health$15K
- Carleton University$15K
- Wolodymyr George Danyliw Foundation$11K
- Fondation du Musee des Beaux- Arts de Montreal$10K
- The Canadian National Institute For The Blind$10K
- The Auxiliary of Hillel Lodge$5,000
- Aciac$5,000
- The Jewish Youth Library of Ottawa$3,600
- Centre des Services Communautaires de Vanier/vanier Community Service Centre$3,000
- Tamir$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Reesa Greenberg (dir/pres/secretary/trea); Lorne Greenberg (director); Stephen Greenberg (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Clematis Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 836104752RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.