Nancy's Very Own Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119051217RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,085,639) as filed with the CRA.
Nancy's Very Own Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from donations.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 22% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 33 qualified donees totalling $657K in 2024, the largest being $450K to Equality Fund Fonds Égalité. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Makes qualifying disbursements primarily in respect of women and girls: social services international aid and development; education and research culture and arts religion health and community benefits equality and human rights. Conducts a project to increase the presence and accessibility on the internet of the history of women and girls in canada and works to increase the inclusion of women and girls in canada's history- and rights-focused institutions. Participates in initiatives relating to systemic discrimination against and the equality of women and girls.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.1M | $370 | $0 | $757K | $5.8M |
| 2023 | -$131K | $720K | $952 | — | $361K | $5.4M |
| 2022 | $2.3M | $675K | $2,291 | $0 | $351K | $6.3M |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $421K | $19K | $0 | $104K | $4.7M |
| 2020 | -$196K | $429K | $36K | $0 | $70K | $3.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $657K to 33 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Equality Fund Fonds Égalité$450K
- Canadian Opera Company$25K
- Famous 5 Foundation$20K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$20K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$12K
- Farm Radio International / Radios Rurales Internationales$11K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
- YWCA Toronto$10K
- Toronto Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)$10K
- The Master and Fellows of Massey College$10K
- Fred Victor Centre$10K
- Canadian National Institute for the Blind$10K
- Metropolitan United Church$9,000
- Journalists for Human Rights (JHR)$8,000
- The Toronto Public Library Foundation$5,000
- Toronto Metropolitan University$5,000
- Street Health Community Nursing Foundation$5,000
- Nightwood Theatre Company$5,000
- Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons$5,000
- Habitat for Humanity Greater Toronto Area$2,500
- The United Church of Canada$2,000
- Humanitarian Coalition / Coalition Humanitaire$2,000
- Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada$2,000
- Unicef$1,000
- The Royal Conservatory of Music$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$50K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nancy Ruth (president); Elizabeth Atcheson (director); Mary Chrow (director); Megan Reid (director); Denise Arsenault (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nancy's Very Own Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119051217RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.