The John and Pat McCutcheon Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 865128177RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2022-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($7,499,760) as filed with the CRA.
The John and Pat McCutcheon Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2022, it reported $3.2M in revenue and $7.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 78% from donations.
Compared with 1,132 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 46 qualified donees totalling $7.4M in 2022, the largest being $1.1M to IISD Experimental Lakes Area Inc.. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $272K in 2020 to $3.2M in 2022. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Our ongoing program is to be involved in community economic development and environmental activities by making grants to other organizations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2022
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | $3.2M | $7.5M | — | — | $7.4M | $465K |
| 2021 | $425K | $757K | — | — | $678K | $4.8M |
| 2020 | $272K | $545K | — | — | $473K | $5.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Granted $7.4M to 46 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- IISD Experimental Lakes Area Inc.$1.1M
- IISD Experimental Lakes Area Inc.$1M
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$900K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$500K
- IISD Experimental Lakes Area Inc.$350K
- IISD Experimental Lakes Area Inc.$350K
- Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada$300K
- Foodshare Toronto$276K
- Right To Food$250K
- The ClearWater Futures Foundation$205K
- CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada$200K
- Neighbour to Neighbour Centre (hamilton)$150K
- The Local Community Food Centre$150K
- The Stop Community Food Centre$150K
- The North Grove Society$140K
- Foodshare Toronto$140K
- ST. James Town Family Literacy Services$120K
- DataStream Initiative$100K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$100K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$100K
- Foodshare Toronto$69K
- ALUS Canada$60K
- Success Beyond Limits Education Program INC.$60K
- Right To Food$50K
- Environmental Defence Canada$50K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$4,890
Schedule 3 of its 2022 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2022)
John Edward McCutcheon (director); William McCutcheon (president); Robert Dale (director); Ryan McCutcheon (director).
As listed on its 2022 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The John and Pat McCutcheon Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 865128177RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.