The Mariano Elia Foundation
Private foundation · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 119244168RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,011,925) as filed with the CRA.
The Mariano Elia Foundation is a private foundation based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $1M in expenditures.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 58 qualified donees totalling $840K in 2024, the largest being $300K to The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $519K in 2020 to $1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Cash donations to various other charitable organizations
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $1M | — | — | $840K | $10.2M |
| 2023 | $592K | $647K | — | — | $484K | $10.2M |
| 2022 | $740K | $656K | — | — | $488K | $10.2M |
| 2021 | $803K | $636K | — | — | $472K | $10.1M |
| 2020 | $519K | $591K | — | — | $440K | $10M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $840K to 58 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$300K
- Art Gallery of Ontario$44K
- Environmental Defence Canada$42K
- Second Harvest Canada$30K
- Friends of the Learning Disabled$30K
- Queen University$25K
- Uot$23K
- Ecojustice Canada Society$17K
- Food Bank Canada$17K
- West Toronto Keys to Inclusion$17K
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$15K
- Sierra Foundation$15K
- ST. George's College Foundation$11K
- Fes$10K
- Friends of Canadian Media$10K
- Canadian Climate Institute$10K
- Indspire$10K
- Samara Centre$10K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$10K
- Up With Women$8,000
- Project Hostel$8,000
- First Book Canada$8,000
- Canadian Women's Foundation$8,000
- Child Development Institute$8,000
- Canadian Opera Company$8,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Valerie Elia (vice president); Susan Zorzi (secretary); Paul Elia (president); Lisa Elia (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Mariano Elia Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119244168RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.