Edwards Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Markham, Ontario · BN 889988598RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,203,893) as filed with the CRA.
Edwards Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Markham, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 61% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 28 qualified donees totalling $1.1M in 2024, the largest being $200K to The Governing Council of the University of Toronto. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Income receive from investments was distributed to religious charitable and educational institutions.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.1M | $22.1M |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $979K | — | — | $879K | $21.4M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $999K | — | — | $899K | $20.6M |
| 2021 | $3.1M | $734K | — | — | $642K | $20.3M |
| 2020 | -$724K | $493K | $85K | — | $400K | $18M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.1M to 28 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$200K
- International Development and Relief Foundation$100K
- Toronto East Health Network Foundation$100K
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$100K
- Toronto Botanical Garden$90K
- The Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall$80K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$50K
- The Terry Fox Foundation$30K
- Sleeping Children Around the World$30K
- Glaucoma Research Society of Canada$30K
- Scarborough Health Network Foundation$25K
- Ontario Rett Syndrome Association$25K
- Oak Valley Health$25K
- CJPME Foundation$25K
- Evangel Hall Mission$20K
- North York Harvest Food Bank$20K
- Markham Food Bank$20K
- Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic$20K
- The Bob Rumball Foundation for the Deaf$15K
- Arise Ministry$15K
- Young People's Theatre$10K
- St Mark's Presbyterian Church$10K
- St Mark's Presbyterian Church$10K
- John Howard Society of Toronto$10K
- Hydrocephalus Canada$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joyce McLellan (president); John (Jr) McLellan (director); Elizabeth McLellan Arnold (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Edwards Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889988598RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.