The Code Foundation la Fondation Code
Public foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 890775273RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,852,937) as filed with the CRA.
The Code Foundation la Fondation Code is a public foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.7M in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures.
In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $19K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 68% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1.7M in 2024, the largest being $1.7M to Code. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The code foundation established in 1992 manages an endowment fund and invests bequests and other planned gifts. The code foundation donates its investment income annually to code for he purposes of advancing code's charitable mission.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $1.9M | — | — | $1.7M | $20.5M |
| 2023 | $421K | $1.6M | — | — | $1.4M | $19.7M |
| 2022 | $2.3M | $1.4M | — | — | $1.3M | $20.8M |
| 2021 | $5.3M | $1.1M | — | — | $948K | $19.9M |
| 2020 | -$1.5M | $1.6M | — | — | $1.5M | $15.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.7M to 1 qualified donee:
- Code$1.7M
Received $19K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Bai (chair); Christopher Bredt (director); Christopher Nobes (director); Paul Bouzanis (director); Catherine Carlin (chair); John Casey (director); Raymond Halley (treasurer); Pauline Port (director); Christopher Bradley Norris (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Code Foundation la Fondation Code’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890775273RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.