Betty Lou Cowper Charitable Trust
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 854375615RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($227,883) as filed with the CRA.
Betty Lou Cowper Charitable Trust is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $275K in revenue and $228K 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 30% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 9 qualified donees totalling $172K in 2024, the largest being $19K to Canadian Unicef Committee. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $143K in 2020 to $275K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
To distribute the net annual income of the charitable trust fund of betty lou cowper to the charitable organizations on form t1236 - 9 charities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $275K | $228K | — | — | $172K | $4M |
| 2023 | $260K | $229K | — | — | $180K | $3.8M |
| 2022 | $276K | $200K | — | — | $143K | $3.7M |
| 2021 | $347K | $321K | — | — | $264K | $4.1M |
| 2020 | $143K | $53K | — | — | — | $4.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $172K to 9 qualified donees:
- Canadian Unicef Committee$19K
- CARE Canada$19K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$19K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$19K
- The United Church of Canada$19K
- The Fraser-Hickson Institute Montréal$19K
- Concordia University-Universite Concordia$19K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$19K
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$19K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bank of Nova Scotia Trust CO (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Betty Lou Cowper Charitable Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 854375615RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.