Eakin Family Foundation
Private foundation · Gloucester, Ontario · BN 717465702RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($291,109) as filed with the CRA.
Eakin Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Gloucester, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $745K in revenue and $291K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% 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 36% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 5 qualified donees totalling $230K in 2024, the largest being $100K to Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The foundation maintains a fund and will grant exclusively to qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $745K | $291K | — | — | $230K | $10.3M |
| 2023 | $9M | $56K | — | — | $35K | $9.9M |
| 2022 | $940K | $5,963 | — | — | — | $934K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $230K to 5 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
William R.S. Eakin (director president); Laurel Cholmsky (director secretary); Kenneth Eakin (director treasurer); Penelope Eakin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Eakin Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 717465702RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.