Alastair & Diana Gillespie Foundation
Private foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 862940178RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($233,458) as filed with the CRA.
Alastair & Diana Gillespie Foundation is a private foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $288K in revenue and $233K in expenditures.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 8 qualified donees totalling $230K in 2024, the largest being $50K to Uxbridge Hospital Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $27K in 2020 to $288K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Donations are paid to charities to support research and where apptopriate activities in the health and ecological/environmental fields in canada. Funding for the medical field focues primarily on diseases such as alzheimer's cancer and other chronic illnesses.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $288K | $233K | — | — | $230K | $3.2M |
| 2023 | $167K | $130K | — | — | $125K | $3.2M |
| 2022 | $227K | $128K | — | — | $125K | $3.2M |
| 2021 | $127K | $113K | — | — | $110K | $3.1M |
| 2020 | $27K | $93K | — | — | $90K | $3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $230K to 8 qualified donees:
- Uxbridge Hospital Foundation$50K
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$50K
- The Hospital for Sick Children$30K
- Green Durham Association Inc.$30K
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation$25K
- Pathways to Education Canada/Passeport pour ma réussite Canada$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$15K
- Alzheimer Society of Canada$15K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
A. Ian Gillespie (treasurer); Cynthia Webb (chair); Meredith Gillespie (trustee); Ian A. M. Gillespie (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Alastair & Diana Gillespie Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 862940178RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.