Earle and Janice O'Born Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 778660720RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,379,637) as filed with the CRA.
Earle and Janice O'Born Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $3.4M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 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 16 qualified donees totalling $2.3M in 2024, the largest being $1M to Sinai Health Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $143K in 2020 to $3.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The mission of the charity is to receive maintain manage and invest in a fund or funds and to apply from time to time all or part thereof and the income earned therefrom from time to time to organizations which are 'qualified donees' under the income tax act (canada) as amended from time to time or equivalent designation under such legislation from time to time.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.4M | $2.4M | — | — | $2.3M | $5.1M |
| 2023 | $3.3M | $2.5M | — | — | $2.5M | $4.1M |
| 2022 | $3.4M | $2.3M | — | — | $2.3M | $3.3M |
| 2021 | $740K | $973K | — | — | $957K | $2.1M |
| 2020 | $143K | $18K | — | — | — | $2.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.3M to 16 qualified donees:
- Sinai Health Foundation$1M
- National Arts Centre Foundation/fondation Centre National des Arts$1M
- University Health Network$167K
- Windmill Microlending$50K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$25K
- Canadian Public Media Association$21K
- Right To Food$20K
- Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research/fondation Canadienne de Recherche sur le Sida$20K
- The Macdonald-Laurier Institute$10K
- Israel Museums and Arts Canada$10K
- University of Guelph$10K
- The Royal Canadian Geographical Society$5,000
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada$2,000
- ST. Paul's Church$2,000
- Stevenson Memorial Hospital Foundation$1,500
- Barnum House Museum$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Earle O'Born (director); Janice O'Born (director); Jamie O'Born (director); Sarah O'Born (director); Andrew O'Born (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Earle and Janice O'Born Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 778660720RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.