Clench House Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 777537333RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,349,570) as filed with the CRA.
Clench House 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 $990K in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 86% 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 89% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 52 qualified donees totalling $2.3M in 2024, the largest being $1.5M to The Governing Council of the University of Toronto. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
The purpose of the foundation is to maintain a fund and apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to one of more qualified donees
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $990K | $2.3M | — | — | $2.3M | $239K |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $1.4M | — | — | $1.4M | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $895K | — | — | $898K | $968K |
| 2021 | $868K | $1.1M | — | — | $1.1M | $827K |
| 2020 | $743K | $1.6M | — | — | $1.6M | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.3M to 52 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$1.5M
- McMichael Canadian Art Foundation$350K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$100K
- Toronto Metropolitan University$56K
- David Goodman Youth Community Trust$50K
- Shaw Festival Theatre Endowment Foundation$25K
- Abilities Centre Foundation$25K
- Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research/fondation Canadienne de Recherche sur le Sida$23K
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$23K
- Trans Canada Trail Foundation$20K
- Canadian Trees for Life$13K
- Why Not Theatre$10K
- DR. Peter AIDS Foundation$10K
- Covenant House Toronto$10K
- CivicAction Leadership Foundation$10K
- Belmont House Foundation$10K
- The Macdonald-Laurier Institute$8,475
- The Salvation Army$7,000
- The Atlantic Salmon Conservation Foundation (ASCF)$7,000
- Campfire Circle Autour du Feu$5,500
- Upper Canada College$5,000
- Trillium Health Partners Foundation$5,000
- The Royal Canadian Geographical Society$5,000
- ST. Michael's and Providence Foundation$5,000
- New Circles Community Services$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrew Pringle (trustee); Valerie Pringle (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Clench House Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 777537333RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.