The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund
Charitable organization · Ohsweken, Ontario · BN 784055915RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,652,080) as filed with the CRA.
The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund is a charitable organization based in Ohsweken, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.3M in revenue and $3.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations, 52% from other charities. In 2024, 43 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 20 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 16 qualified donees totalling $249K in 2024, the largest being $105K to Sacred Fire Productions. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Education advancement of the impact of residential school system and truth and reconcilliation between indigenous and non-indigenous communities. Promotion of truth and reconciliation and positive relations between indigenous and non-indigenous communities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.3M | $3.7M | $2.2M | $204K | $742K | $12.6M |
| 2023 | $4.3M | $3M | $2.7M | $2,202 | — | $11.3M |
| 2022 | $5.8M | $2.3M | $1.8M | $2,493 | — | $11.2M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $1.4M | $1.1M | $3,810 | — | $7.7M |
| 2020 | $3.6M | $2.6M | $2.2M | $11K | — | $5.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $249K to 16 qualified donees:
- Sacred Fire Productions$105K
- The Art Gallery of Windsor$15K
- Woodland Cultural Centre$14K
- Axis Theatre Society$13K
- Yellowknife Education District # 1$10K
- Inuit Association of Manitoba (I AM...) Inc.$10K
- Tribe Artist Society$10K
- Eshkiniigjik Naandwechigegamig Aabiish Gaa Binjibaaying - ENAGB Youth Program$10K
- Community Radio Foundation of Canada$10K
- The Native Clan Organization Inc.$10K
- Stardale Women's Group Incorporated$10K
- Evergreen$8,000
- The Robert McLaughlin Gallery$7,500
- Municipal District of Opportunity No. 17$7,500
- Red Road Lodge Inc.$5,000
- Conseil Scolaire Viamonde$3,650
Received $2M from 43 charities:
- Northern Legacy Foundation$1.3M
- RBC Foundation$250K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$147K
- The Joyce Family Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$49K
- Canadahelps Canadon$49K
- Amicus Foundation$20K
- The Houssian Foundation$20K
- Toronto Foundation$19K
- Jays CARE Foundation$18K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$9,903
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$5,712
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$5,191
- The Winnipeg Foundation$5,000
- Shukrana Foundation Inc.$5,000
- The Derick Brenninkmeyer Charitable Foundation$5,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$4,258
- Ike Nizam Foundation of Canada$4,000
- Abbey's Goal Memorial Fund$2,500
- Columbia International Scholarship Endowment Fund$2,000
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$1,907
- Deer Creek Cares Charitable Foundation$1,200
- ATCO Electric Epic$1,040
- Bob and Peggy Savage Foundation$1,000
- The Peel District School Board$951
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
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions20
- Total compensation, all staff$1.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mike Downie (director); Harriet Visitor (director); Kory Wilson (vice chair); Hillary Thatcher (director); Stuart Coxe (secreatry); Alika Lafontaine (director); Brad Baker (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 784055915RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.