The Macdonald Griffin Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 834467367RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($68,527) as filed with the CRA.
The Macdonald Griffin Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $782K in revenue and $69K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 92% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 13 qualified donees totalling $68K in 2024, the largest being $31K to West Park Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $8,048 in 2020 to $782K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
To provide funds by way of gift to qualified donees under the income tax act.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $782K | $69K | — | — | $68K | $968K |
| 2023 | $14K | $48K | — | — | $48K | $254K |
| 2022 | $9,232 | $27K | — | — | $26K | $289K |
| 2021 | $32K | $24K | — | — | $24K | $306K |
| 2020 | $8,048 | $48K | — | — | $48K | $297K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $68K to 13 qualified donees:
- West Park Foundation$31K
- Right To Food$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,043
- World Bicycle Relief Canada$5,000
- Friends of the Muskoka Watershed$2,556
- Parkinson Canada Inc.$1,030
- Second Harvest Canada$660
- Historica Canada$550
- Action Against Hunger Acr (canada)$500
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$420
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$250
- The Terry Fox Foundation$200
- UHN Foundation$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jock Macdonald (trustee); Janet Griffin (trustee); Jessica Macdonald (trustee); Jared Macdonald (trustee); Jodi Macdonald (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Macdonald Griffin Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 834467367RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.