Your Canada Your Constitution / Votre Canada Votre Constitution
Private foundation · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 824058705RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($126,979) as filed with the CRA.
Your Canada Your Constitution / Votre Canada Votre Constitution is a private foundation based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $75K in revenue and $127K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 3,624 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 58% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $115K in 2024, the largest being $50K to Civix. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $18K in 2020 to $75K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Research (scientific medical environmental etc) and public education other study programs
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $75K | $127K | $5,592 | — | $115K | $103K |
| 2023 | $58K | $102K | $5,756 | — | $90K | $180K |
| 2022 | — | $170K | — | — | $170K | — |
| 2021 | $19K | $12K | $5,107 | — | — | $497K |
| 2020 | $18K | $11K | $5,248 | — | — | $384K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Investment income$6,534
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $115K to 3 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alison Loat (president); Patricia Margaret Loat (director); David Skok (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Your Canada Your Constitution / Votre Canada Votre Constitution’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 824058705RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.