The Winnipeg Foundation
Public foundation · Winnipeg, Manitoba · BN 119300960RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($96,487,676) as filed with the CRA.
The Winnipeg Foundation is a public foundation based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $816.3M in revenue and $96.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 57% from donations, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 79 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5.1M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 96% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 75 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1,034 qualified donees totalling $78.2M in 2024, the largest being $18.1M to Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $241.7M in 2020 to $816.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
The winnipeg foundation connects donors from all walks of life with local charitable organizations that help our city flourish for all. The winnipeg foundation is an endowment-based organization which means gifts received are pooled and invested. The income generated provides a stable source of dupport for our community for good. Forever. Donors can establish permanent endowment funds to support causes they care about in perpetuity and many charitable agencies have established endowment funds at the foundation to generate predicatable revenue streams to support their operations. The winnipeg …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $816.3M | $96.5M | $4M | $1.6M | $78.2M | $2.1B |
| 2023 | $160M | $83.3M | $3.5M | $1.6M | $67.4M | $1.4B |
| 2022 | -$83.7M | $74.8M | $2.9M | $1.2M | $60.2M | $1.3B |
| 2021 | $379.8M | $74.2M | $3.3M | $1.3M | $60.1M | $1.5B |
| 2020 | $241.7M | $63.1M | $3.1M | $1.3M | $51.9M | $1.2B |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $78.2M to 1,034 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation$18.1M
- Province of Manitoba$3M
- The University of Manitoba$2.3M
- Manitoba Recreational Trails Association Inc.$1.6M
- The Royal Winnipeg Ballet$1.6M
- City of Winnipeg$1.3M
- United Way of Winnipeg$1.3M
- Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Inc.$1.2M
- Main Street Project Inc.$1.2M
- Selkirk & District Community Foundation Inc.$1.1M
- Ma Mawi-Wi-Chi-Itata Centre Inc.$1.1M
- Polish Canadian Museum & Archives Inc.$852K
- The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Inc.$780K
- Children's Heritage Education Endowment Fund$762K
- Siloam Mission Inc.$736K
- The Fort Whyte Foundation Inc.$685K
- Cancercare Manitoba Foundation Inc.$644K
- Ndinawemaaganag Endaawaad Inc$619K
- Gonzaga Middle School of Winnipeg Inc.$615K
- Rainbow Resource Centre Inc.$586K
- The University of Winnipeg Foundation Inc.$543K
- Winnipeg Regional Health Authority$532K
- Acwi Heritage Corp.$525K
- Harvest Manitoba Inc.$491K
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada$485K
Received $5.1M from 79 charities:
- The Winnipeg Art Gallery$2.3M
- Kikinaw Housing Inc.$1.5M
- Misericordia Health Centre Foundation Inc.$141K
- Pine Ridge Wildlife and Environment Foundation Inc$121K
- Toba Centre for Children and Youth Inc.$75K
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$63K
- Seven Oaks Education Foundation Inc.$60K
- Holy Names House of Peace Inc.$51K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$51K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$41K
- Masonic Foundation of Manitoba Inc.$41K
- Manitoba Theatre for Young People Inc.$39K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$36K
- CanU Canada$35K
- The Heritage Project/reflets du Patrimoine$35K
- The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba$30K
- BenefAction Foundation$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- The Community of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary$25K
- Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada Inc.$25K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$21K
- Kildonan M.c.c. Community Assistance Centre Inc.$20K
- The Jewish Foundation of Manitoba$20K
- Grandview & District Community Foundation Inc.$20K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9994 positions
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions75
- Total compensation, all staff$6.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Scott Gillingham (ex officio).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Winnipeg Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119300960RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.