Butterfield Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 836714253RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($353,196) as filed with the CRA.
Butterfield Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $511K in revenue and $353K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 84% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 28 qualified donees totalling $350K in 2024, the largest being $93K to Trinity College. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $270K in 2020 to $511K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $511K | $353K | — | — | $350K | $681K |
| 2023 | $740K | $298K | — | — | $296K | $523K |
| 2022 | $325K | $279K | — | — | $278K | $81K |
| 2021 | $250K | $245K | — | — | $242K | $35K |
| 2020 | $270K | $247K | — | — | $246K | $31K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $350K to 28 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Trinity College$93K
- The New Farm Centre for Climate Action$50K
- Institute for Canadian Citizenship$50K
- The Royal Conservatory of Music$38K
- Escarpment Corridor Alliance$25K
- Ecojustice Canada Society$25K
- UHN Foundation$10K
- ST. Michael's and Providence Foundation$7,500
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$7,000
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada$7,000
- World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial pour la Nature Can Ada$5,000
- Pen Canada the Canadian Centre of International Pen le Centre Canadien de Pen International$5,000
- Women's College Hospital Foundation$2,500
- Volcano Non-Profit Productions Inc.$2,500
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$2,500
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$2,500
- Humber River Health Foundation$2,500
- South Shore Health Foundation$2,500
- Collingwood General & Marine Hospital Foundation$2,500
- Aciac$2,500
- Soulpepper Theatre Company$2,000
- Sinai Health Foundation$2,000
- The Toronto International Festival of Authors$1,500
- Literary Review of Canada$1,250
- CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
George Butterfield (president); Martha Butterfield (vice-president); David Butterfield (vice-president); Nathalie Butterfield (vice-president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Butterfield Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 836714253RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.