The Morning Star Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Rothesay, New Brunswick · BN 865587216RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($725,283) as filed with the CRA.
The Morning Star Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Rothesay, New Brunswick, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $209K in revenue and $725K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $681K in 2024, the largest being $500K to Sussex Christian School Inc.. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $408K in 2020 to $209K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
To facilitate educational projects with christian and/or secular organizations including the financing of facilities learning aids and library resources. The foundation has an on-going process of reviewing and evaluating requests from various entities to determine if resource evaluating requests from various entities to determine if resource allocations tto these organizations would further its charitable objectives.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $209K | $725K | $42K | — | $681K | $3.6M |
| 2023 | $109K | $828K | $48K | — | $779K | $4.1M |
| 2022 | $344K | $370K | $40K | — | $328K | $4.8M |
| 2021 | $143K | $131K | $129K | — | $78K | $4.9M |
| 2020 | $408K | $97K | $48K | — | $47K | $4.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $681K to 3 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Emmerson (trustee); Deanna Emmerson (trustee); Bryan Emmerson (trustee); Stephen Emmerson (trustee); Julie Johnson (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Morning Star Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 865587216RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.