WCPD Foundation
Public foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 840593628RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($34,625,459) as filed with the CRA.
WCPD Foundation is a public foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $34.4M in revenue and $34.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from donations. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $128K.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 94% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 523 qualified donees totalling $27.5M in 2024, the largest being $3.1M to CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada). Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The foundation's purpose is to provide to charitable organizations that are registered under the income tax act of canada.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $34.4M | $34.6M | $6.8M | — | $27.7M | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $81.3M | $80.9M | $8.9M | — | $71.9M | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $26.1M | $26.1M | $4.8M | — | $21.2M | $1M |
| 2021 | $48.8M | $48.9M | $11.3M | — | $37.5M | $1M |
| 2020 | $24.9M | $24.1M | $6M | — | $18M | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $27.5M to 523 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$3.1M
- ZLC Foundation$2.7M
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$2.3M
- The Ottawa Hospital Foundation/la Fondation de l'Hopital d'Ottawa$1.8M
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$1.4M
- Fondation Famille Jacques Larivière$1.3M
- GiveWise Foundation Canada$1.2M
- University of Ottawa$866K
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Canada$534K
- Big Life Foundation Canada$492K
- Haan Charitable Foundation$425K
- Fondation Henrichon-Goulet$408K
- Vancouver Foundation$350K
- The Brownlee Family Foundation Inc.$314K
- Centraide Du Grand Montréal$302K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$288K
- Sinai Health Foundation$286K
- Belmont House Foundation$278K
- Jewish Federation of British Columbia$265K
- Northmount School for Boys$250K
- The David Bloomfield Family Foundation$213K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$205K
- The Meril Rivard Family Foundation Inc.$200K
- Fondation de l'Université du Québec À Rimouski Inc.$200K
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$200K
Received $128K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Peter JR. Nicholson (director); Michelle Claude (director); Peter SR. Nicholson (director); Leonard Farber (director); Christopher Richards (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from WCPD Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 840593628RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.