The Guelph Community Foundation
Public foundation · Guelph, Ontario · BN 867278350RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,788,024) as filed with the CRA.
The Guelph Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Guelph, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.2M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 38% from donations. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $285K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 179 qualified donees totalling $1.2M in 2024, the largest being $66K to The Children's Foundation of Guelph and Wellington. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.9M in 2020 to $4.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The guelph community foundation and its donors strengthen our community by making grants building and maintaining endowment funds and serving our community as a philanthropic resource and partner. Grants are disbursed to qualified donees primarily but not exclusively in guelph and wellington county in the areas of arts and culture education environment health and social services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.2M | $1.8M | $132K | — | $1.2M | $17.5M |
| 2023 | $4.5M | $3.1M | $370K | — | $2.5M | $15M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $2.6M | $371K | — | $2.1M | $13.6M |
| 2021 | $3.7M | $1.6M | $319K | — | $1.2M | $14.6M |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $1.9M | $143K | — | $1.5M | $12.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.2M to 179 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Children's Foundation of Guelph and Wellington$66K
- Wyndham House$59K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington Branch$46K
- Living Lakes Canada Society$40K
- Hope House Guelph$29K
- Guelph Neighbourhood Support Coalition$25K
- United Way Community Services of Guelph and Wellington$22K
- The Foundation of Guelph General Hospital$22K
- Hospice Wellington$21K
- Rare Charitable Research Reserve$20K
- Kindle Communities Organization$18K
- University of Guelph$17K
- ST. Joseph's Health Centre Foundation Guelph$17K
- Guelph Community Health Centre$15K
- Ed Video Incorporated$15K
- Eden Mills Writers' Festival$15K
- Harcourt Memorial United Church$14K
- The Guelph Humane Society Incorporated$13K
- Elora Road Christian Fellowship Inc.$13K
- Guelph Museums$12K
- Chalmers Community Services Centre of the United Church of Canada$11K
- Guelph and District Multicultural Festival$11K
- YWCA Hamilton$10K
- Wesley Urban Ministries Inc.$10K
- The Food Bank of York Region$10K
Received $285K from 9 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$368K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carly O'Brien (board chair); Raymond Stultz (board member); Hilary Coates (secretary/treasurer); Celeste Bannon-Waterman (board member); Justin Chan (board member); Jaime Power (board member); Karyn Sales (board member); Eric Johnstone (board vice chair); Mark Rodenburg (board member); Dhruv Shah (board member); Hilary McCann (board member); Crista Renner (board member); Roger Garriock (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Guelph Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 867278350RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.