Leslois Shaw Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 834356818RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,875,649) as filed with the CRA.
Leslois Shaw 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 $22.3M in revenue and $4.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 47% from donations.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 28 qualified donees totalling $3.3M in 2024, the largest being $1M to The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $8.1M in 2020 to $22.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Charitable donations to registered charities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $22.3M | $4.9M | — | — | $3.3M | $106.4M |
| 2023 | $10.9M | $7M | — | — | $4M | $88.9M |
| 2022 | $9.8M | $3.9M | $44K | — | $1.2M | $85M |
| 2021 | $29.5M | $4.3M | — | — | $3.6M | $77M |
| 2020 | $8.1M | $4M | — | — | $3.1M | $51.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.3M to 28 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$1M
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering of Canada$500K
- Toronto Foundation for Student Success$275K
- Visions of Science Network for Learning$233K
- Covenant House Toronto$180K
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation$151K
- Baby Love Beginnings$150K
- The WoodGreen Foundation$125K
- Visions of Science Network for Learning$100K
- Nyaka Canada$60K
- Huronia Transition Homes$60K
- The Saltire Foundation (Canada)$50K
- Tno - the Neighbourhood Organization$50K
- Jump Math$50K
- Abiona Centre for Infant & Early Mental Health$50K
- Toronto United Mennonite Church$30K
- Powell River Compassionate Friends Society$25K
- Mennonite Central Committee Ontario$25K
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$25K
- Credit Valley Conservation Foundation$25K
- Charities Aid Foundation Canada$25K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$25K
- Canada's National Ballet School l'Ecole Nationale de Ballet du Canada$25K
- Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary$25K
- Ian Anderson House Foundation$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$539K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dianne Shaw (director); Tanya Taylor (director); Dawn Santone (director); Nicola Shaw (director); Virginia Shaw (director); Natalie Maev (director); Laura Buckley (director); Judy Smith (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Leslois Shaw Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 834356818RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.