The Firstline Foundation
Private foundation · Etobicoke, Ontario · BN 722365285RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,895,370) as filed with the CRA.
The Firstline Foundation is a private foundation based in Etobicoke, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $9.2M in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 22% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 27% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 17 qualified donees totalling $1.4M in 2024, the largest being $290K to Canadian Unicef Committee. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
We established a fund from donations received from donors. We ended the year by making donations to some qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.2M | $1.9M | — | — | $1.4M | $32.5M |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.4M | $25.1M |
| 2022 | -$4.8M | $1.2M | — | — | $865K | $24.7M |
| 2021 | $17.2M | $600K | — | — | $475K | — |
| 2020 | $6.2M | $292K | — | — | $201K | $14M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.4M to 17 qualified donees:
- Canadian Unicef Committee$290K
- United Nations World Food Program$175K
- Uhncr$150K
- The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$150K
- MS Canada SP Canada$150K
- Parkinson Canada Inc.$100K
- The Charitree Foundation$100K
- Community First Foundation$50K
- International Conservation Fund of Canada Inc.$50K
- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada/societe de Leucemie & Lymphome du Canada$50K
- Lifewater Canada$35K
- Canadian Foodgrains Bank Association Inc/association de la Banque Canadienne de Grains Inc.$30K
- Trans Canada Trail Foundation$25K
- The Bruce Trail Conservancy$25K
- Western Canada Wilderness Committee$25K
- Pacific Wild Alliance$10K
- Farm Radio International / Radios Rurales Internationales$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Hans Koehle (director); Andrea Jones (director); John Koehle (director); Michael Koehle (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Firstline Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 722365285RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.