Gill Ratcliffe Foundation
Private foundation · Kingston, Ontario · BN 816750277RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,508,328) as filed with the CRA.
Gill Ratcliffe Foundation is a private foundation based in Kingston, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $627K in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% 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 37% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 68 qualified donees totalling $707K in 2023, the largest being $250K to National Arts Centre Foundation/fondation Centre National des Arts. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $627K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation was established to receive gifts bequests funds and property and to hold invest administer and distribute funds and property to other qualified organizations under the provision of the income tax act.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $627K | $1.5M | — | — | $1.2M | $206K |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1M | — | — | $707K | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.2M | — | — | $942K | $370K |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.4M | — | — | $1.1M | $23K |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $1.3M | — | — | $996K | $34K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Granted $707K to 68 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- National Arts Centre Foundation/fondation Centre National des Arts$250K
- Shallaway - Newfoundland & Labrador Youth in Chorus Inc.$70K
- Rare Charitable Research Reserve$50K
- Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Historical Society Incorporated$40K
- Shorefast Foundation$40K
- University Hospital Skingston Foudnation$25K
- The Kingston Humane Society$20K
- Memorial University of Newfoundland$15K
- Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston$15K
- Kingston Unitarian Fellowship$14K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$10K
- Persistence Theatre Company Inc.$10K
- Kingston Home Base Non-Profit Housing Inc$10K
- Horizons of Friendship$10K
- Community Foundation for Kingston & Area$10K
- Amnesty International Canadian Section (english Speaking)$10K
- ST Vincent de Paul Society of Kingston$7,500
- YMCA of Eastern Ontario$5,000
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$5,000
- The University of Western Ontario$5,000
- Lion Hearts Inc.$5,000
- Eastport Peninsula Arts and Heritage Society Inc.$5,000
- The Canadian National Institute For The Blind$5,000
- Canadian Museum of History$5,000
- The Ontario Educational Communications Authority$3,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Elinor Ratcliffe (director); Jack Gilfillan (director); Lisa Asbreuk (director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Gill Ratcliffe Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 816750277RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.