The McCain Foundation
Private foundation · Florenceville-Bristol, New Brunswick · BN 886597681RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($4,476,774) as filed with the CRA.
The McCain Foundation is a private foundation based in Florenceville-Bristol, New Brunswick, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $6M in revenue and $4.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% 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 83% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 72 qualified donees totalling $4.4M in 2024, the largest being $600K to The Chalmers Foundation Inc.. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4M in 2020 to $6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The mccain foundation considers requests for funding from charitable groups which comply with the objectives of the foundation. During the fiscal year the mccain foundaiton distributed funds to various charity groups. These include charities whose objectives meet the foundations areas of focus which are arts anhd culture community services education environment and health and welfare.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6M | $4.5M | — | — | $4.4M | $2.1M |
| 2023 | $4M | $5.3M | — | — | $5.3M | $582K |
| 2022 | $4M | $4.2M | — | — | $4.1M | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $4M | $3.8M | $126K | — | $3.7M | $2.1M |
| 2020 | $4M | $3.7M | — | — | $3.6M | $1.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4.4M to 72 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Chalmers Foundation Inc.$600K
- Fredericton Community Services Inc.$375K
- Dalhousie University$300K
- New Brunswick Youth Orchestra Inc.$240K
- Assiniboine Community College Foundation Inc.$200K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$167K
- Kids Help Phone / Jeunesse J' Ecoute$150K
- Holland College Foundation Inc.$150K
- Kinvia$150K
- The Portage District General Hospital Foundation$125K
- Breakfast Club of Canada$115K
- The New Brunswick Community College Foundation$100K
- Brigadoon Children's Camp Society$100K
- Actua$100K
- Friends of the Moncton Hospital Foundation Inc.$80K
- Fredericton Homeless Shelters Inc.$80K
- Hope Air$65K
- The Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba Inc.$54K
- Youth Impact Jeunesse Inc.$50K
- Shad Canada$50K
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada$50K
- The Earth Rangers Foundation$50K
- The Do More Agriculture Foundation$50K
- Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada Inc.$50K
- The Andrew and Laura McCain Art Gallery Inc.$50K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$14K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Campbell (secretary); Ann Evans (director); Kaitlyn Johnston (director); Sarah McCain (director); Rachel Ingram (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The McCain Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 886597681RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.