Green Sanderson Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 803441120RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,915,068) as filed with the CRA.
Green Sanderson Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.5M in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 55% from other charities. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $3M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 41% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 22 qualified donees totalling $1.6M in 2024, the largest being $500K to Canadahelps Canadon. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
To distribute assets to one or more charities which are qualified donees for the purposes 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 | $5.5M | $1.9M | — | — | $1.6M | $30.3M |
| 2023 | $3.1M | $1.6M | — | — | $1.3M | $26.7M |
| 2022 | -$3M | $1.4M | — | — | $1.1M | $25.1M |
| 2021 | $3.3M | $1.6M | — | — | $1.3M | $29.6M |
| 2020 | $6.2M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.5M | $27.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.6M to 22 qualified donees:
- Canadahelps Canadon$500K
- Stella's Place Assessment and Treatment Centre$250K
- Stella's Place Assessment and Treatment Centre$200K
- Taking It Global Youth Association$100K
- Fighting Blindness Canada$100K
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$100K
- Environmental Defence Canada$50K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$50K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$50K
- Canadian Magen David Adom for Israel/Magen David Adom Canadien pour Israel$50K
- Stella's Place Assessment and Treatment Centre$28K
- Doctor's Without Borders (MSF Canada)$25K
- Sing! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival$15K
- The Toronto Choral Society (2005)$10K
- Indigenous Peoples Resilience Fund$10K
- Ecojustice Canada Society$10K
- Rescue Lake Simcoe Charitable Foundation$10K
- Ontario Native Women's Charitable Foundation$10K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$10K
- Toronto Operetta Theatre$10K
- The David Suzuki Foundation$5,000
- Ontario Clean Air Alliance Research Inc.$5,000
Received $3M from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Donna Green (trustee); Stella Green Sanderson (trustee); Kit Green Sanderson (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Green Sanderson Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 803441120RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.