McLean Smits Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 839071818RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,038,467) as filed with the CRA.
McLean Smits 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 $881K in revenue and $1M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 99% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 44 qualified donees totalling $989K in 2024, the largest being $600K to Crow's Theatre. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
To donate funds to registered canadian charities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $881K | $1M | $989K | — | $989K | $6.9M |
| 2023 | $828K | $553K | — | — | $505K | $7M |
| 2022 | -$894K | $519K | $465K | — | $465K | $6.8M |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $534K | $480K | — | $480K | $8.2M |
| 2020 | $834K | $649K | $597K | — | $597K | $7.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $989K to 44 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Crow's Theatre$600K
- Prince Edward County Community Foundation$65K
- Prince Edward County Arts Council$28K
- County Stage Company$25K
- The Stop Community Food Centre$20K
- Girls E-Mentorship Innovation$20K
- The Carol Shields Prize Foundation$20K
- Kiwanis Music Festival Association of Greater Toronto$15K
- Plan International Canada Inc.$10K
- Koffler Centre of the Arts$10K
- Inter Pares$10K
- Ecojustice Canada Society$10K
- Right To Food$10K
- Growing Neighbourhoods Foundation$10K
- The Toronto Public Library Foundation$5,000
- Quinte Arts Council$5,000
- The Royal Conservatory of Music$5,000
- Sistering-A Woman's Place$5,000
- Siminovitch Prize$5,000
- Shakespeare in the Ruff$5,000
- Partners in Education Ethiopia$5,000
- Professional Association of Canadian Theatres / Association professionnelle des theatres canadiens$5,000
- Nightwood Theatre Company$5,000
- Native Earth Performing Arts Incorporated$5,000
- March of Dimes Canada$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Seaton McLean (trustee); Sonja Smits (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from McLean Smits Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 839071818RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.