Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation
Private foundation · London, Ontario · BN 890231772RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($732,075) as filed with the CRA.
Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation is a private foundation based in London, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $732K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 62% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 39% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 84 qualified donees totalling $612K in 2024, the largest being $56K to United Way Elgin Middlesex. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $133K in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The board met 3 times and made 30 grants to social services for children families youth seniors and persons with disabilities. The foundation also matches donations made by employees of sifton properties limited and made 74 such donations to the united way and other charities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $732K | — | — | $602K | $11.8M |
| 2023 | $561K | $748K | — | — | $603K | $10.8M |
| 2022 | $750K | $701K | — | — | $577K | $10.9M |
| 2021 | $479K | $715K | — | — | $592K | $9.9M |
| 2020 | $133K | $452K | — | — | $360K | $10.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $612K to 84 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- United Way Elgin Middlesex$56K
- Thames Valley Education Foundation$50K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of London and Area$25K
- Nutrition for Learning Inc.$25K
- Hopewell Support Services$25K
- Canadian Children's Optimist Foundation$25K
- Junior Achievement of South Western Ontario Inc.$25K
- Community Counselling Centre of London$25K
- Child Hunger Brantford$25K
- Epilepsy London & Area$24K
- DeafBlind Ontario Foundation$24K
- Glen Cairn Community Resource Centre$22K
- Marillac Place$21K
- The University of Western Ontario$20K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters Of Halton and Hamilton$16K
- Learning Disabilities Association of Wellington County$15K
- The Learning Disabilities Association - London Region$15K
- South London Neighbourhood Resource Centre$15K
- Sexual Assault Support CTR - Waterloo Region$15K
- London Track 3 Ski School$13K
- Mission Services of London$11K
- London and Area Food Bank Inc$10K
- Internet Sense First / Premier Sens Internet$10K
- Michael House Pregnancy and Parenting Support Services$10K
- The Shoebox Project for Shelters$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sherene Davidson (chair); Carol Robertson (secretary/treasurer); Rick Vandertuin (director); Matthew Robertson (director); Katherine Rose (director); Carey McInnis (director); Jacqueline Gooyers (director); Susan Romyn (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890231772RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.