The Durham College Foundation
Public foundation · Oshawa, Ontario · BN 864183769RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,514,501) as filed with the CRA.
The Durham College Foundation is a public foundation based in Oshawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.8M in revenue and $4.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from donations, 6% from government. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.9M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 94% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $4.5M in 2024, the largest being $4.5M to The Durham College of Applied Arts and Technology. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.8M | $4.5M | — | — | $4.5M | $18M |
| 2023 | $4.1M | $3.9M | — | — | $3.9M | $17.5M |
| 2022 | $6M | $5.9M | — | — | $5.9M | $17.3M |
| 2021 | $2.4M | $2.4M | — | — | $2.4M | $16.6M |
| 2020 | $3.6M | $3M | — | — | $3M | $16.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4.5M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $1.9M from 14 charities:
- The Joyce Family Foundation$1M
- The Barrett Family Foundation$580K
- The Schulich Foundation$225K
- Weston Family Foundation$40K
- The Edmond & Sylvia Vanhaverbeke Foundation$33K
- Herman Kassinger Foundation$25K
- Durham Community Foundation$4,700
- Smart Serve Ontario$4,000
- Oshawa Parkwood Rotary Club Charitable Foundation$3,000
- Durham Community Foundation$3,000
- Canadian Institute for Non-Destructive Evaluation$1,000
- Plant a Seed & See What Grows Foundation$1,000
- World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial pour la Nature Can Ada$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$19
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Barbara Maccheyne (treasurer); Lee Terry (investment committee chair); Brandon Bird (member at large); Elaine Popp (ex-officia member); Garry Cubitt (governance committee chair); Tom Worden (chair); Chris Vale (vice chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Durham College Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 864183769RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.