The Joyce Family Foundation
Private foundation · Burlington, Ontario · BN 888159266RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($28,803,042) as filed with the CRA.
The Joyce Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Burlington, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $81.4M in revenue and $28.8M in expenditures.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 61 qualified donees totalling $28.5M in 2024, the largest being $2.5M to Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The purpose of the foundation is to support the social economic and emotional well-being of children and youth by empowering them to develop into healthy confident independent contributors to canadian society by making gifts to other qualified donees in canada.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $81.4M | $28.8M | — | — | $28.5M | $552.2M |
| 2023 | $9M | $16.3M | — | — | $16M | $499.6M |
| 2022 | $5.6M | $13.9M | — | — | $13.6M | $506.9M |
| 2021 | $187.9M | $7M | — | — | $6.8M | $515.2M |
| 2020 | -$52.7M | $5.4M | $1,529 | — | $5.1M | $334.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $28.5M to 61 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation$2.5M
- Queen's University at Kingston$2M
- Fanshawe College of Applied Arts & Technology$2M
- The Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology$2M
- Pathways to Education Canada/Passeport pour ma réussite Canada$1.5M
- Nipissing University$1.5M
- Niagara College of Applied Arts and Technology$1.5M
- University of Ottawa$1.3M
- Memorial University of Newfoundland$1.3M
- Wilfrid Laurier University$1M
- University of King's College$1M
- The Sault College of Applied Arts and Technology$1M
- Red Deer Polytechnic$1M
- Indspire$1M
- Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation$1M
- The Durham College Foundation$1M
- Concordia University-Universite Concordia$1M
- The Canadore College Foundation$1M
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation$561K
- Joseph Brant Hospital Foundation$400K
- Mariners Centre Health and Wellness Fund$300K
- United for Literacy Foundation Fondation Littératie Ensemble$255K
- The University of New Brunswick$250K
- Kids Help Phone / Jeunesse J' Ecoute$250K
- Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Cornwall and District Inc.$250K
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
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$158K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mike Harris (trustee); Grant Joyce (trustee); Steven Joyce (trustee); Edward Lumley (trustee); Rob Macisaac (trustee); Sandy McDonald (trustee); Michele Thornley-Allison (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Joyce Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888159266RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.