Doane Grant Thornton Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 842129082RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,387,593) as filed with the CRA.
Doane Grant Thornton 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 $3.3M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $3,127.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 97% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 440 qualified donees totalling $3.2M in 2024, the largest being $200K to I W K Health Centre Charitable Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $210K in 2020 to $3.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
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Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $3.4M | $113K | $6,629 | $3.3M | $2.6M |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $2.5M | — | $6,804 | $2.5M | $2.6M |
| 2022 | $2.9M | $1.3M | — | $11K | $1.3M | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $152K | $91K | $20K | $6,006 | $59K | $338K |
| 2020 | $210K | $312K | — | $6,193 | $300K | $276K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.2M to 440 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- I W K Health Centre Charitable Foundation$200K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$92K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$91K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$91K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$91K
- Jays CARE Foundation$75K
- The Kamloops & District Society for People in Motion$70K
- Special Olympics Canada$56K
- Lord Selkirk Robert Fraser Memorial Pipe Band$50K
- The Toronto Humane Society$50K
- Pacific Assistance Dogs Society$30K
- Waterfront Regeneration Trust Corporation$30K
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada$30K
- ST. Andrew's Church$30K
- Native Child and Family Services of Toronto$30K
- The Upper Room Hospitality Ministry Inc.$30K
- March of Dimes Canada$25K
- Covenant House Toronto$25K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$25K
- Black Health Alliance$25K
- Covenant House Toronto$25K
- Junior Achievement of Central Ontario$24K
- The Reach Foundation Inc.$20K
- Vancouver Island University Foundation$20K
- CanFund (Canadian Athletes Now)$20K
Received $3,127 from 1 charity:
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,127
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Hugh Erickson (director); Maureen McCurdy (director); Sharon Healy (director); Dennis Leung (chair); Jillian Murray (director); Danzel Pinto (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Doane Grant Thornton Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 842129082RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.