Arbor Memorial Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 805854114RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($395,886) as filed with the CRA.
Arbor Memorial Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending October 31, 2024, it reported $607K in revenue and $396K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $16K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 70% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 85% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 180 qualified donees totalling $375K in 2024, the largest being $25K to Pallium Foundation of Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $335K in 2020 to $607K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The Foundation receives submissions from Arbor Memorial Inc's (AMI) funeral homes and cemeteries across Canada for prospective worthy causes. An internal committee comprised of AMI employees meets twice a year to review the submissions and determine the charitable organizations they want to support.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $607K | $396K | $6,546 | $15K | $374K | $805K |
| 2023 | $504K | $401K | $7,111 | $24K | $371K | $594K |
| 2022 | $369K | $414K | $6,157 | $1,631 | $406K | — |
| 2021 | $384K | $255K | — | $420 | $248K | $536K |
| 2020 | $335K | $237K | — | $25K | $205K | $407K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $375K to 180 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Pallium Foundation of Canada$25K
- Pinball Foundation$10K
- University Hospitals Kingston Foundation$10K
- The DR. Bob Kemp Hospice Foundation Inc.$10K
- Our Saviour Lutheran Church$10K
- Victoria Hospice Society$10K
- St. Pat's Needs a Hat$10K
- Bruyère Health Foundation$7,500
- Cowichan District Hospital Foundation$5,000
- Rosewood Manor CARE Foundation$5,000
- Baba Nanak Trust Foundation (Breaking The Silence)$5,000
- Ricochet (Hébergement/Homes)$5,000
- Nanaimo Community Hospice Society$5,000
- Grace Community (ancaster) Christian Reformed Church$5,000
- Native Friendship Centre of Montreal Inc.$5,000
- Surrey Hospice Society$5,000
- Ronald McDonald House Ottawa / Maison Ronald McDonald Ottawa$5,000
- Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver$5,000
- Canadian Cancer Society$5,000
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$5,000
- Michaëlle Jean Foundation$4,000
- Fife House Foundation Inc.$4,000
- Bethell Hospice Foundation$3,900
- Red Deer Native Friendship Society$3,500
- Fraser Region Aboriginal Friendship Centre Association$3,500
Received $16K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paul Scanlan (president); Laurel Ancheta (treasurer); Kerr Stephen (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Arbor Memorial Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 805854114RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.