{
 "title": "Foundations giving most to poverty relief: 2024 CRA filings",
 "headline": "Canadian foundations reported $1.21B in gifts to poverty-relief charities in fiscal periods ending in 2024; the 10 largest givers, led by United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto, gave 35% of it.",
 "period_start": "2024-01-01",
 "period_end": "2024-12-31",
 "period_label": "2024 charity filings (fiscal periods ending 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31)",
 "period_note": "Charity tax returns are published once a year, so this report uses the Canada Revenue Agency's latest release on hand: T3010 returns for fiscal periods ending in 2024. This month's featured cause is poverty relief; each month features a different cause.",
 "stats": [
  [
   "$1.21B",
   "given by foundations to poverty-relief charities"
  ],
  [
   "3,313",
   "foundations that gave"
  ],
  [
   "5,031",
   "charities that received a gift"
  ],
  [
   "$7,500",
   "typical (median) gift"
  ]
 ],
 "summary": [
  "In T3010 returns for fiscal periods ending in 2024, 3,313 Canadian foundations reported 21,893 gifts totalling $1.21B to 5,031 registered charities whose CRA category is Organizations relieving poverty.",
  "United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto gave the most ($95.2M to 22 charities). The ten largest givers together account for 35% of the total, and the typical gift was $7,500.",
  "Gifts under $500 and gifts passed through donor-advised fund platforms are left out, because a charity cannot apply to them. Amounts are what the foundation reported; they are not adjusted for inflation."
 ],
 "method": "Gifts of $500 or more that public and private foundations reported on Schedule of qualified donees in their 2024 returns, to registered charities whose CRA category is Organizations relieving poverty (category 1). Donor-advised fund platforms and online-giving conduits are excluded. A foundation that filed more than one return in the year has its gifts added together.",
 "source": {
  "name": "Canada Revenue Agency, T3010 registered charity information returns (open data, qualified donees)",
  "url": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/d4287672-3253-4bb6-8d60-c2bf4b8c4ce8",
  "licence": "Open Government Licence – Canada",
  "licence_url": "https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada"
 },
 "chart": {
  "title": "The 10 foundations that gave most to poverty relief, fiscal periods ending in 2024",
  "rows": [
   {
    "label": "United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto",
    "value": 95243651.0
   },
   {
    "label": "Mastercard Foundation",
    "value": 83942583.0
   },
   {
    "label": "United Way of Greater Toronto",
    "value": 50283790.0
   },
   {
    "label": "Vancouver Foundation",
    "value": 36001869.0
   },
   {
    "label": "Federation CJA",
    "value": 35686274.0
   },
   {
    "label": "Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service Foundation",
    "value": 35175328.0
   },
   {
    "label": "Centraide Du Grand Montréal",
    "value": 29412249.0
   },
   {
    "label": "Calgary Homeless Foundation",
    "value": 27472510.0
   },
   {
    "label": "Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal",
    "value": 19421206.0
   },
   {
    "label": "United Way British Columbia",
    "value": 16700656.0
   }
  ]
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "The 20 foundations that gave the most",
  "columns": [
   "Foundation",
   "Location",
   "Charities funded",
   "Gifts",
   "Total given",
   "Typical gift"
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto",
    "Toronto, ON",
    "22",
    "22",
    "$95.2M",
    "$76K"
   ],
   [
    "Mastercard Foundation",
    "Toronto, ON",
    "4",
    "4",
    "$83.9M",
    "$14.8M"
   ],
   [
    "United Way of Greater Toronto",
    "Toronto, ON",
    "381",
    "415",
    "$50.3M",
    "$4,881"
   ],
   [
    "Vancouver Foundation",
    "Vancouver, BC",
    "420",
    "421",
    "$36.0M",
    "$4,050"
   ],
   [
    "Federation CJA",
    "Montreal, QC",
    "18",
    "18",
    "$35.7M",
    "$67K"
   ],
   [
    "Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service Foundation",
    "Calgary, AB",
    "1",
    "1",
    "$35.2M",
    "$35.2M"
   ],
   [
    "Centraide Du Grand Montréal",
    "Montreal, QC",
    "262",
    "264",
    "$29.4M",
    "$100K"
   ],
   [
    "Calgary Homeless Foundation",
    "Calgary, AB",
    "18",
    "18",
    "$27.5M",
    "$777K"
   ],
   [
    "Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal",
    "Montreal, QC",
    "197",
    "197",
    "$19.4M",
    "$8,650"
   ],
   [
    "United Way British Columbia",
    "Burnaby, BC",
    "143",
    "148",
    "$16.7M",
    "$67K"
   ],
   [
    "United Way of Calgary and Area",
    "Calgary, AB",
    "119",
    "168",
    "$16.1M",
    "$5,000"
   ],
   [
    "La Fondation Rossy the Rossy Foundation",
    "Town Of Mount-Royal, QC",
    "33",
    "33",
    "$14.5M",
    "$110K"
   ],
   [
    "The Calgary Foundation",
    "Calgary, AB",
    "194",
    "197",
    "$14.1M",
    "$10K"
   ],
   [
    "Fondation Mirella & Lino Saputo",
    "Saint-Leonard, QC",
    "125",
    "151",
    "$13.8M",
    "$50K"
   ],
   [
    "Jewish Federation of British Columbia",
    "Vancouver, BC",
    "21",
    "22",
    "$13.6M",
    "$6,750"
   ],
   [
    "Ronald S. Roadburg Foundation",
    "Vancouver, BC",
    "8",
    "8",
    "$11.0M",
    "$62K"
   ],
   [
    "Centraide Québec  Chaudière-Appalaches et Bas-Saint laurent",
    "Quebec, QC",
    "188",
    "189",
    "$10.9M",
    "$40K"
   ],
   [
    "Ronald Mcdonald House Canada / Maison Ronald Mcdonald Canada",
    "Toronto, ON",
    "8",
    "8",
    "$10.7M",
    "$1.3M"
   ],
   [
    "Fondation Mission Old Brewery/Old Brewery Mission Foundation",
    "Montreal, QC",
    "1",
    "1",
    "$10.2M",
    "$10.2M"
   ],
   [
    "The Winnipeg Foundation",
    "Winnipeg, MB",
    "171",
    "171",
    "$10.2M",
    "$20K"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "publisher": "A3E Ecosystem Inc.",
 "url": "https://grants.a3eecosystem.com/reports/2026-10/",
 "published": "2026-10-27",
 "updated": "2026-10-27",
 "licence_note": "Free to quote or republish with a link to https://grants.a3eecosystem.com/reports/2026-10/"
}