What is in this report?
This is about the awareness of the growing “charity gap” in Canada, the significant accumulation of wealth in grant-making foundation endowments, and how Canadians feel about these facts.
What are the 3 major takeaways?
- Canadians are not aware of the growing charity gap nor aware of the expanding accumulation of wealth in foundation investment accounts (leading to this topic being largely overlooked).
- Once informed, Canadians felt strongly that the accumulation of wealth in foundations is not right and needs to be improved.
- The vast majority (87%) of Canadians are for raising the required Disbursement Quota to 10% among grant-making foundations. Canadians want a higher required Disbursement Quota for foundations.