Northup / Lawson Memorial Trust Fund
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 858855547RR0001 · Education in the Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($23,231) as filed with the CRA.
Northup / Lawson Memorial Trust Fund is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under education in the arts. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $46K in revenue and $23K in expenditures.
Compared with 3,624 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% 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 1 qualified donee totalling $13K in 2024, the largest being $13K to University of Toronto Schools. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $23K in 2020 to $46K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
To pay the net income therefrom to gifted students in the arts literature and/or music in furtherance of their studies in the arts literature or music.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $46K | $23K | — | — | $13K | $549K |
| 2023 | $41K | $22K | — | — | $13K | $515K |
| 2022 | $42K | $21K | — | — | $11K | $458K |
| 2021 | $43K | $17K | — | — | $9,000 | $530K |
| 2020 | $23K | $14K | — | — | $9,000 | $483K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Investment income$45,375
- Other income$745
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $13K to 1 qualified donee:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bank of Nova Scotia Trust CO (trustee); Susan Stevenson (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Northup / Lawson Memorial Trust Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 858855547RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.