Bessie Borden Perpetuity Trust
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 831677349RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-02-27. Split of total expenditures ($16,226) as filed with the CRA.
Bessie Borden Perpetuity Trust is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending February 27, 2024, it reported $18K in revenue and $16K in expenditures.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $11K in 2024, the largest being $10K to Mount Allison University. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
To pay the united church of canada at canning nova scotia each and every year the sum of $200.00 to pay to the blanchard fraser memorial hospital at kentville kings county each and every year the sum of $100.00 and to pay the balance of the income arising from such part each year to the governors of mount allison university of sackville new brunswick to be used by them for the purposes of a scholarship to be known as 'the harold lothrop borden scholarship'
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $18K | $16K | — | — | $11K | $227K |
| 2023 | $12K | $17K | — | — | $11K | $221K |
| 2022 | $15K | $17K | — | — | $11K | $239K |
| 2021 | $9,898 | $20K | — | — | $12K | $231K |
| 2020 | $13K | $12K | — | — | $6,200 | $241K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, February 27, 2024
- Investment income$7,539
- Other income$457
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 $11K to 3 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Royal Trust Corporation.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bessie Borden Perpetuity Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 831677349RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.