Trans Canada Trail Foundation
Public foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 829708403RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,570,477) as filed with the CRA.
Trans Canada Trail Foundation is a public foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.6M in revenue and $4.6M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 59% from donations, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $257K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 8% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 91% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $2.2M in 2024, the largest being $2.2M to Trans Canada trail / Sentier transcanadien. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $4.3M in 2020 to $2.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Raising funds to support the activities of trans canada trail.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $4.6M | — | $2M | $2.2M | $8.8M |
| 2023 | $3M | $2.8M | — | $1.5M | $1M | $10.7M |
| 2022 | $2.8M | $3.4M | $750K | — | $2.4M | $10.5M |
| 2021 | $2.3M | $1.6M | — | $869K | $461K | $11.1M |
| 2020 | $4.3M | $2.7M | — | $1.1M | $1.3M | $10.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.2M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $257K from 29 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$44K
- Vancouver Foundation$30K
- The Firstline Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- London Community Foundation$20K
- Co-operators Community Fund (Charity)$20K
- Clench House Foundation$20K
- The Marion Armstrong Charitable Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation$10K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$5,000
- Airlie Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,044
- The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation$4,000
- The Winnipeg Foundation$1,500
- BenefAction Foundation$1,250
- Link Charity Canada Inc$1,000
- The Hay Foundation/la Fondation Hay$1,000
- The Calgary Foundation$800
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$600
- Gandy Charitable Foundation$500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$302
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$300
- The Rogan Foundation$250
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$938K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jane Pepino (board chair); Kirby Gavelin (director); Michael Lindsay (director); Robert Richardson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Trans Canada Trail Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 829708403RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.