Benjamin Herbert Birstein Trust #3
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 764593513RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($136,283) as filed with the CRA.
Benjamin Herbert Birstein Trust #3 is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $601K in revenue and $136K 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 55% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $122K in 2024, the largest being $122K to The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 36 names.
In its own words
The charitable trust invests the capital held by it and grants all net income derived therefrom on the hospital for sick children foundation for its charitable purposes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $601K | $136K | — | — | $122K | $4.4M |
| 2023 | $159K | $113K | — | — | $101K | — |
| 2022 | $190K | $88K | — | — | $76K | $3.9M |
| 2021 | $260K | $75K | — | — | $59K | — |
| 2020 | -$105K | $89K | — | — | $78K | $3.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $122K to 1 qualified donee:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lalit Aggarwal (director); Kevin Au-Yeung (director); Jordan Banks (director); Sonia Baxendale (chair); Jordan Bitove (director); Emily Burnett (director); Ronald Cohn (director); Erin Donohue (director); Douglas Farley (director); Mary Federau (director); Stephen Forbes (director); Jef Kimel (director); Nilman Ganenthiran (director); Jordan Gnat (director); Wesley Hall (director); Claudia Hepburn (director); Deland Kamanga (director); Albert Wang (director); Kevin Kaye (director); Desmond D'Silva (director); Cludette McGowan (director); Barry McLellan (director); Piyush Bhatnagar (director); Derek Neldner (treasurer); Isaac Olowolafe (director); Prem Watsa (director); Melissa Kennedy (director); Dustin Reid (director); Suzanne Rogers (director); Sachin Shah (director); Clare Sellers (director); Walied Soliman (vice chair); Christian Sorbara (director); Jennifer Suess (director); Kathleen Taylor (director); Maryann Turcke (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Benjamin Herbert Birstein Trust #3’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 764593513RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.