The Don and Shirley Green Family Charitable Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Nepean, Ontario · BN 863228482RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($453,380) as filed with the CRA.
The Don and Shirley Green Family Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Nepean, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $133K in revenue and $453K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $450K in 2024, the largest being $250K to Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $19K in 2020 to $133K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The 2024 donations and grants to qualified donees include in desscending order of dollar value: f1 - hospitals; b1 - social services (international); a8 - children / youth services; f4 - services for the sick; and a1 - housing (seniors low income people w/ disabilities).
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $133K | $453K | — | — | $450K | $1.5M |
| 2023 | -$81K | $696K | — | — | $693K | $1.8M |
| 2022 | -$44K | $688K | — | — | $685K | $2.4M |
| 2021 | $429K | $621K | — | — | $616K | $3.2M |
| 2020 | $19K | $2.1M | — | — | $2.1M | $3.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $450K to 6 qualified donees:
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation$250K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$125K
- Canadian Aid for Chernobyl$50K
- Ringette Canada$10K
- Hospice Muskoka$10K
- Cornerstone Housing For Women$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Douglas Brown (director & secretary); Debbie O'Brien (director); Don (JR.) Green (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Don and Shirley Green Family Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863228482RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.