Five B Family Foundation
Private foundation · Long Sault, Ontario · BN 892369042RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,473,095) as filed with the CRA.
Five B Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Long Sault, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $19.1M in revenue and $3.5M in expenditures.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 61 qualified donees totalling $4.8M in 2024, the largest being $1.5M to Inrig Family Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
To receive and maintain a fund and to support charitable organizations with priority and preferences to charities within the provinces of ontario and quebec.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $19.1M | $3.5M | $10K | — | $3.4M | $81.4M |
| 2023 | $915K | $3.4M | $3.4M | — | $3.4M | $65.8M |
| 2022 | $22.9M | $3.2M | — | — | $3.2M | $68.3M |
| 2021 | $20.6M | $2.4M | — | — | $2.4M | $72.2M |
| 2020 | -$3.4M | $2.5M | — | — | $2.5M | $54.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4.8M to 61 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Inrig Family Foundation$1.5M
- Ottawa Community Foundation$1.1M
- ST Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences/l'institut des Sciences Environmentales du Fleuve Saint-Laurent$250K
- City of Cornwall$200K
- Soldier on$200K
- The Hub for Beyond 21 Foundation$150K
- Canadensis Botanical Garden Society$125K
- United Way of Stormont Dundas & Glengarry$110K
- ST. Lawrence College of Applied Arts & Technology$100K
- Queen's University at Kingston$100K
- Watersheds Canada$80K
- OrKidstra - Sistema Ottawa$60K
- United Way of Leeds and Grenville$50K
- The Stormont Dundas Glengarry/ahkwesahsne Childrens' Treatment Centre$45K
- Spencerville Agricultural Society$35K
- No. 9 Contemporary Art & the Environment$30K
- Médecins du Monde$30K
- Small Change Fund$30K
- Ottawa Riverkeeper Inc.$30K
- Ronald McDonald House Ottawa / Maison Ronald McDonald Ottawa$25K
- Spencerville MILL Foundation$25K
- Township of Rideau Lakes$25K
- Rachel's Kids Development Fund$20K
- The Ottawa Mission Foundation$20K
- Parkdale Food Centre$20K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Eric Baker (director); Melanie Ann Baker Brown (president); Luke Witherspoon (secretary); Harrison Brown (director); Emma Brown (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Five B Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892369042RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.