Earnest Charitable Foundation Founder
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 894646785RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($81,958) as filed with the CRA.
Earnest Charitable Foundation Founder is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $923K in revenue and $82K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 76% from donations.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% 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 $82K in 2024, the largest being $50K to Canada Christian College & School of Graduate Theological Studies. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $143K in 2020 to $923K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Supporting ministries that are involved with preaching the gospel and humanitarian work.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $923K | $82K | — | — | $82K | $2M |
| 2023 | $346K | $27K | — | — | $27K | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $143K | $122K | — | — | $122K | $797K |
| 2021 | $244K | $22K | — | — | $17K | $776K |
| 2020 | $143K | $107K | — | — | $107K | $554K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $82K to 5 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Keith Finch (trustee); S. Wayne Finch (trustee); Stephen Finch (trustee); Brendan Finch (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Earnest Charitable Foundation Founder’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 894646785RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.