Chisholm Thomson Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 805805389RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,247,742) as filed with the CRA.
Chisholm Thomson 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 $875K in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 34 qualified donees totalling $2.1M in 2024, the largest being $415K to Clean Economy Fund. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $4.2M in 2020 to $875K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Providing grants to registered canadian charities who are helping canada move toward a clean economy
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $875K | $2.2M | — | — | $2.1M | $33.6M |
| 2023 | $4.1M | $2M | — | — | $1.8M | $35M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.5M | — | — | $1.3M | $33.3M |
| 2021 | $4.2M | $1.3M | — | — | $1.1M | $39M |
| 2020 | $4.2M | $1.3M | — | — | $1.1M | $39.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.1M to 34 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Clean Economy Fund$415K
- Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development$150K
- Environmental Defence Canada$150K
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research$150K
- The University of Western Ontario$125K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$125K
- WCS Wildlife Conservation Society Canada$100K
- Mars Discovery District$100K
- Evergreen$100K
- University of Ottawa$75K
- The Dragonfly Fund$75K
- Centre for Land Conservation$75K
- Neighbours United for Nature Society$50K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$50K
- The University of British Columbia$50K
- Community Energy Association$50K
- Greenbelt Foundation$30K
- SeedChange / Sème l'avenir$25K
- Friends of the Muskoka Watershed$20K
- Oconto Campership Fund$15K
- Muskoka Conservancy$15K
- Habitat Acquisition Trust$10K
- Art Gallery of Ontario$10K
- Peninsula Streams Society$10K
- Rick Hansen Foundation$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrew Chisholm (director); Laurel Thomson (chair); Greg Thomson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chisholm Thomson Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 805805389RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.