The Counselling Foundation of Canada
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 108079229RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,423,137) as filed with the CRA.
The Counselling Foundation of Canada is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $10M in revenue and $4.4M in expenditures.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 36% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 25 qualified donees totalling $3.2M in 2024, the largest being $1.9M to Ceric. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.2M in 2020 to $10M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The counselling foudnation of canada is established to create and enrich counselling programs and improve the technical skills of career counsellors. The object of the foundation is to engage in charitable and educational activities for the benefit of people; thus enabling them to improve their lifestyles and make a more effective contribution to their communities. The goals of the foundation are (I) to promote the effective delivery of career counselling through reputable and credible exisitng institutions (education religious and community) to individuals involved in the process of career …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10M | $4.4M | $219K | — | $3.3M | $60.6M |
| 2023 | $7.2M | $4.5M | $347K | — | $3.6M | $55M |
| 2022 | $2.5M | $11.3M | $7.8M | — | $3.2M | $52.4M |
| 2021 | $23M | $3.5M | $893K | — | $2.4M | $61.2M |
| 2020 | $6.2M | $4M | $825K | — | $2.9M | $58.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.2M to 25 qualified donees:
- Ceric$1.9M
- Indigenous Peoples Resilience Fund$200K
- Community Foundations of Canada$125K
- Visions of Science Network for Learning$100K
- Anishnawbe Health Foundation$100K
- Furniture Bank$65K
- Volunteer Canada - Benevoles Canada$60K
- Canadahelps Canadon$60K
- Operation Come Home$53K
- YMCA of Greater Toronto$50K
- Water First Education and Training Inc.$50K
- University of Waterloo$50K
- Access Community Capital Fund$50K
- Imagine Canada$40K
- Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami$35K
- People for Education$30K
- The Mohawk College Foundation$27K
- Thrive Youth Development Canada$25K
- Gakino'amaage: Teach For Canada$25K
- Partners for Youth Inc.$25K
- Charity Intelligence Canada$23K
- Philanthropic Foundations Canada/fondations Philanthropiques Canada$15K
- Social Innovation Canada$10K
- The Circle on Philanthropy$2,000
- The Jasmine House$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$441K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Barbara Mason (director); Jan Dymond (vice-chair); Douglas Lawson (treasurer-secretary); Jaime Hugessen (director); Yvonne Lawson (director); Victoria Grant (board chair); Anne Lawson (director); Shirley Hamm (director); Kyle Mason (director); Eugenia Addy (director); Darlene Nuqingaq (director); Justin Langan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Counselling Foundation of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108079229RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.