The McLean Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 134368364RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,817,980) as filed with the CRA.
The McLean 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 $8.5M in revenue and $2.8M in expenditures.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% 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 138 qualified donees totalling $2.2M in 2024, the largest being $100K to Environmental Defence Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5.3M in 2020 to $8.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The purpose of the mclean foundation ('foundation') is to make donations to registered canadian charitable organizations with a particular emphasis on projects showing promise of general social benefit but which may initially lack broad public appeal.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.5M | $2.8M | — | — | $2.2M | $65.2M |
| 2023 | $4.4M | $3.3M | — | — | $2.5M | $59.5M |
| 2022 | -$3.9M | $2.9M | — | — | $2.3M | $58.4M |
| 2021 | $8.1M | $3.5M | — | — | $3.1M | $65.2M |
| 2020 | $5.3M | $3.1M | — | — | $2.8M | $60.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.2M to 138 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Environmental Defence Canada$100K
- Canadian Climate Institute$100K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$90K
- Finance Engage Sustain / Financer Engager Soutenir$75K
- Ecojustice Canada Society$75K
- Clean Economy Fund$75K
- Wildsight$50K
- Centre for Environmental Leadership in Canada$50K
- The Toronto Symphony$40K
- The National Ballet of Canada/le Ballet National du Canada$35K
- Foundations for Social Change$34K
- Small Change Fund$33K
- Small Change Fund$33K
- Environmental Defence Canada$33K
- Stella's Place Assessment and Treatment Centre$30K
- Ocean Wise Conservation Association$30K
- Greenbelt Foundation$30K
- Wildlands League$25K
- United Way British Columbia$25K
- The Theatre Museum Corporation$25K
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$25K
- The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation$25K
- The Master and Fellows of Massey College$25K
- MABELLEarts$25K
- Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario$25K
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$216K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mary Brown (director); Ryan Brown (director); Carol Gray (director); Simon Isdell-Carpenter (chair); Chelsea Hulme (director); Mark F. McLean (vice-chair); Andrew M. Stewart (director); Indira Stewart (vice-chair); Kaija Pitt (director); Nigel E. M. Stewart (director); Saira Stewart (director); Jack Gray (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The McLean Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 134368364RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.