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.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Investment income$168,820
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 $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.