The Derick Brenninkmeyer Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Oakville, Ontario · BN 862235454RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($182,412) as filed with the CRA.
The Derick Brenninkmeyer Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Oakville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $232K in revenue and $182K in expenditures.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 40% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 21 qualified donees totalling $149K in 2024, the largest being $20K to United Way of Stormont Dundas & Glengarry. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $930K in 2020 to $232K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
Maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to qualified donees
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $232K | $182K | — | — | $149K | $3.8M |
| 2023 | $194K | $192K | — | — | $158K | $3.5M |
| 2022 | $225K | $156K | — | — | $122K | $3.2M |
| 2021 | $214K | $126K | — | — | $89K | $3.6M |
| 2020 | $930K | $141K | — | — | $113K | $3.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $149K to 21 qualified donees:
- United Way of Stormont Dundas & Glengarry$20K
- Canadian Unicef Committee$20K
- Serenity Renewal for Families$20K
- Lookout Housing and Health Society$15K
- The Ottawa Mission Foundation$10K
- Mind Your Plastic$10K
- Heartwood House: au Coeur de la Vie$10K
- Shepherds of Good Hope Foundation$5,000
- Oakville Galleries$5,000
- Change the World Foundation$5,000
- The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund$5,000
- Collingwood School Foundation$5,000
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Vancouver$5,000
- United Way British Columbia$2,500
- The Colin B Glassco Charitable Foundation for Children$2,500
- Arthouse for Children and Youth$2,500
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Ottawa-Cornwall$2,000
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$1,000
- OneProsper International Inc.$1,000
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada$1,000
- Loyola High School Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephen Brenninkmeyer (trustee); Roger Brenninkmeyer (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Derick Brenninkmeyer Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 862235454RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.