The Military Communications and Electronics Museum Foundation
Public foundation · Kingston, Ontario · BN 898772751RR0001 · Public Amenities
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-02-28. Split of total expenditures ($205,774) as filed with the CRA.
The Military Communications and Electronics Museum Foundation is a public foundation based in Kingston, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending February 28, 2024, it reported $84K in revenue and $206K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 31% from donations. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $64K.
Compared with 2,652 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 90% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $172K in 2024, the largest being $172K to Military Communications and Electronics Museum. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $354K in 2020 to $84K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Provide financial support to the operations and programs of the military communications and electronics museum provide financial assistance for the activities and programs that benefit the personnel of the communications and electronics branch of the canadian armed forces
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $84K | $206K | $20K | $492 | $172K | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $147K | $191K | — | $5,394 | $151K | $1.8M |
| 2022 | $260K | $152K | — | $1,825 | $110K | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $402K | $211K | — | $4,320 | $161K | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $354K | $363K | — | $521 | $327K | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $172K to 1 qualified donee:
- Military Communications and Electronics Museum$172K
Received $64K from 9 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- William James Henderson Foundation$13K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,377
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$611
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$503
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$194
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Geoff Priems (director); Travis Frerichs (director); James McCaffrey (director); Bill Cowperthwaite (director); Christopher Anstey (director); Donald Fredin (director); Robert Lilienthal (director); Gary Wolfman (director); Tammy Piatkowski (director); Scott McLean (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Military Communications and Electronics Museum Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 898772751RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.