Allen Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 849078738RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($338,315) as filed with the CRA.
Allen Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $662K in revenue and $338K 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 36% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 24 qualified donees totalling $268K in 2024, the largest being $30K to Belmont House Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $184K in 2020 to $662K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation disburses funds to other registered charities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $662K | $338K | — | — | $268K | $5.1M |
| 2023 | $3.9M | $158K | — | — | $140K | $4.8M |
| 2022 | $120K | $270K | — | — | $220K | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $220K | $380K | — | — | $364K | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $184K | $265K | — | — | $255K | $1.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $268K to 24 qualified donees:
- Belmont House Foundation$30K
- UHN Foundation$25K
- Upper Canada College$25K
- Church of the Redeemer$25K
- Canada's National Ballet School l'Ecole Nationale de Ballet du Canada$20K
- Toronto Summer Music Foundation$13K
- United Nations Association in Canada$10K
- World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial pour la Nature Can Ada$10K
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation$10K
- The Toronto Mendelssohn Choir$10K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$10K
- Kids Help Phone / Jeunesse J' Ecoute$8,000
- Shaw Festival Theatre Canada$8,000
- The National Ballet of Canada/le Ballet National du Canada$8,000
- Art Gallery of Ontario$7,500
- University of Waterloo$7,000
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada$7,000
- Queen's University at Kingston$5,000
- Wind Athletes Canada$5,000
- The Bishop Strachan School Foundation$5,000
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$5,000
- ST. Paul's Church$5,000
- The Canadian Canoe Museum$5,000
- Alzheimer Society of Ontario$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Eric Allen (trustee); Christopher Allen (trustee); Neil Payne (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Allen Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 849078738RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.