Arthritis Research Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119290773RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($398,201) as filed with the CRA.
Arthritis Research Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.8M in revenue and $398K in expenditures.
In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $333K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 96% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $212K in 2024, the largest being $160K to Sinai Health System. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $506K in 2020 to $2.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 44 names.
In its own words
The arthritis research foundation provides funding for research projects in the area of arthritis and autoimmune disease research at university health network and sinai health system.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.8M | $398K | — | $31K | $212K | $26.9M |
| 2023 | $129K | $1.6M | — | $34K | $1.4M | $24.5M |
| 2022 | $2.5M | $379K | — | $84K | $170K | $25.9M |
| 2021 | $4.3M | $531K | — | $83K | $177K | $23.8M |
| 2020 | $506K | $13.3M | $255K | — | $12.8M | $20M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $212K to 2 qualified donees:
Received $333K from 21 charities:
- C. R. Younger Foundation$160K
- Wayne and Isabel Fox Family Foundation$60K
- Canadahelps Canadon$22K
- Canadahelps Canadon$22K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$18K
- Nelson Arthur Hyland Foundation$15K
- The Bruce H. Mitchell Foundation$10K
- Toronto Foundation$6,606
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$6,438
- Sinai Health Foundation$5,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$1,984
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,806
- Fondation Desjardins$1,306
- Nick & Lynn Ross Charitable Foundation$1,000
- ATCO Electric Epic$765
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$254
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$250
- United Way of Greater Toronto$200
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$70
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$14
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Maxine Granovsky Gluskin (exofficio/immediate past chai); Richard Pilosof (chair and president); David Cynamon (director); Howard Sokolowski (director); Les Viner (secretary/vice-chair); Andrew Phillips (treasurer/vice-chair); Louis De Melo (chief executive officer); Jonathan Gitlin (vice-chair); Maxwell Gotlieb (vice-chair); David Kaufman (vice-chair); Matthew Cockburn (director); Robert Rubinoff (ex-officio/vice-chair); Kate Schatzky (vice-chair); Jack Winberg (vice-chair); Brent Belzberg (director); Janet Bomza (director); Camille Dan (director); Mark Davis (director); Gloria Epstein (director); Richard Fogler (director); Carol Goldstein (director); Marianne Guizzetti (director); Barbara Hennick (director); Moti Jungreis (director); Rob Kumer (vice-chair); Harry Lebovic (director); Robert (butch) Mandel (director); Catherine Murray (director); Janice O'Born (director); Zippy Orland (director); Jonathan Pollack (director); Andrew (andy) Pringle (director); Harry Samuel (director); Jordan Sarick (director); Barbara Hania (ex-officio director); Mitchell Kunin (ex-offico director); Gary Newton (ex-officio director); Lawrence Tanenbaum (ex-officio); Brett Henry (director); Alexandra De Gasperis (director); Shamez Virani (director); Daniel Sonshine (director); Stephen Green (director); Doug Nathanson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Arthritis Research Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119290773RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.