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.
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.