Isberg Charitable Trust
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 836692202RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($98,500) as filed with the CRA.
Isberg Charitable Trust is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $139K in revenue and $99K in expenditures.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 66% 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 38 qualified donees totalling $98K in 2024, the largest being $33K to Canadian Children's Shelter of Hope Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $28K in 2020 to $139K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
We make gifts to qualified donees in the following areas: -health care including medical research and health care services -social welfare organizations -organizations to aid the disabled -educational institutions
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $139K | $99K | — | — | $93K | $2.8M |
| 2023 | $137K | $106K | — | — | $106K | $2.8M |
| 2022 | $52K | $139K | — | — | $139K | — |
| 2021 | $14K | $86K | — | — | $86K | $2.8M |
| 2020 | $28K | $78K | — | — | $78K | $2.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $98K to 38 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Canadian Children's Shelter of Hope Foundation$33K
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$20K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$10K
- Right to Play International$5,000
- The Toronto Humane Society$2,000
- Canadian Cancer Society$2,000
- Waladi Child Education Fund of Toronto$1,000
- The University of Western Ontario$1,000
- University of Guelph$1,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,000
- The Veritas Foundation/La Fondation Veritas$1,000
- The Hammer Band-From Violence to Violins$1,000
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$1,000
- Toronto Children's CARE Inc.$1,000
- Community Music Schools of Toronto Foundation$1,000
- Pathways to Education Canada/Passeport pour ma réussite Canada$1,000
- Ontario Track3 Adaptive Sports Association$1,000
- MS Canada SP Canada$1,000
- Assisted-Dying Resource Centres Canada$1,000
- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada/societe de Leucemie & Lymphome du Canada$1,000
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$1,000
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada$1,000
- Child Development Institute$1,000
- Campfire Circle Autour du Feu$1,000
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Margaret Isberg (trustee); Kris Isberg (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Isberg Charitable Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 836692202RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.