The Jim and Lorna Blair Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 871317368RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($345,366) as filed with the CRA.
The Jim and Lorna Blair Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Waterloo, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $345K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 27% 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 47% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 20 qualified donees totalling $296K in 2024, the largest being $115K to Cambridge Shelter Corporation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Funding primarily mennonite organizations in the kw region.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $345K | — | — | $296K | $7.5M |
| 2023 | $675K | $320K | — | — | $278K | $6.3M |
| 2022 | $246K | $324K | — | — | $280K | $5.9M |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $410K | — | — | $372K | $6M |
| 2020 | -$439K | $444K | — | — | $408K | $4.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $296K to 20 qualified donees:
- Cambridge Shelter Corporation$115K
- House of Friendship$65K
- Rockway Mennonite Collegiate$16K
- Silver Lake Mennonite Camp Inc.$15K
- Mennonite Central Committee Canada$15K
- Conrad Grebel University College$12K
- Shalom Counselling Services Inc.$9,000
- Beyond Housing$9,000
- Foundation for International Development Assistance$6,000
- KW Accessability$5,000
- Kidsability Centre for Child Development Foundation$5,000
- Book Clubs for Inmates Inc./ Circles de livres pour detenues Inc.$5,000
- K-W Working Centre for the Unemployed$4,000
- Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank Inc.$4,000
- K-W Working Centre for the Unemployed$3,000
- Compass Refugee Centre Inc.$3,000
- Community Healthcaring Kitchener-Waterloo$2,000
- Veterans Voices of Canada$1,000
- Theatre of the Beat Inc.$1,000
- Abundance Canada$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lorna Blair (president); Hilary Blair (director); Douglas Blair (secretary-treasurer); Scott Brubaker-Zehr (director); Alison Blair (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Jim and Lorna Blair Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 871317368RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.