The Home Depot Canada Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 828431015RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-01-31. Split of total expenditures ($13,470,701) as filed with the CRA.
The Home Depot Canada Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending January 31, 2024, it reported $13.8M in revenue and $13.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from donations. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $655K.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 36% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 357 qualified donees totalling $10.4M in 2024, the largest being $1.7M to Blue Door Support Services. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $7.1M in 2020 to $13.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
1. To relieve poverty by addressing and ending homelessness with a focus on youth homelessness by: a) providing improving and increasing emergency and transitional housing housing services and supports and the necessities of life to those who are homeless; and b) funding and/or conducting research into issues related to homelessness and affordable housing disseminating the research results and sharing best practices and solutions related to this research with the general public. 2. To address or prevent problems of homelessness with a focus on youth homelessness by providing ed…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $13.8M | $13.5M | $449K | $2.3M | $10.4M | $550K |
| 2023 | $13.5M | $12.7M | $285K | $1.9M | $10.2M | $2.2M |
| 2022 | $338K | $41K | $18K | $6,064 | — | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $11.5M | $14.1M | $3.7M | $1.2M | $9M | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $7.1M | $7.6M | $620K | $116K | $6.7M | $3.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $10.4M to 357 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Blue Door Support Services$1.7M
- 360Kids Support Services$300K
- Choices for Youth Inc$250K
- Raising the Roof chez Toit$250K
- Choices for Youth Inc$250K
- Ndinawemaaganag Endaawaad Inc$250K
- Youthlink$200K
- Le Bon Dieu dans la Rue Organisation pour Jeunes Adultes$200K
- Covenant House Vancouver$200K
- Youth Without Shelter Terra House North Toronto Emergency Residence and Referral Agency$200K
- Y.e.s.s.: Youth Emergency Shelter Society of Edmonton$200K
- Mission Bon Accueil / Welcome Hall Mission$200K
- Eva's Initiatives for Homeless Youth$200K
- Trellis Society for Community Impact$200K
- Friends of Ruby$200K
- Le Bon Dieu dans la Rue Organisation pour Jeunes Adultes$200K
- Resource Assistance for Youth Inc.$159K
- A Way Home: Working Together to End Youth Homelessness$150K
- Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa Charitable Foundation$150K
- Choices for Youth Inc$100K
- Choices for Youth Inc$100K
- Niagara Resource Service for Youth$100K
- Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness$100K
- Raising the Roof chez Toit$100K
- Phoenix Youth Programs Charitable Foundation$100K
Received $655K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$593K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Pamela O'Rourke (chair); Sergio Carestia (vice chair); Azmina Hussein (director); Craig Ingram (secretary); Doug Graham (director); Ryan Wilkie (director); Virginia Clark Hicks (director); Andre Vogl (director); Rajendra Sidhaye (treasurer); Jean Francois Chagnon (director); Sandra Cole (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Home Depot Canada Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 828431015RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.