Ontario Horticultural Trades Foundation
Private foundation · Milton, Ontario · BN 874560303RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($412,779) as filed with the CRA.
Ontario Horticultural Trades Foundation is a private foundation based in Milton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $524K in revenue and $413K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 19% from other charities. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $66K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 81% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $250K in 2024, the largest being $250K to Canadian Trees for Life. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $2.4M in 2020 to $524K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
We disburse scholarships to individuals to further their education in horticultural related studies. We disburse funds for horticultural related research
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $524K | $413K | $147K | — | $250K | $2M |
| 2023 | -$58K | $1.1M | $593K | — | $450K | $1.9M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $2.6M | $1.5M | — | $1.1M | $3M |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $2.2M | $2.2M | — | — | $3.9M |
| 2020 | $2.4M | $2.5M | $2.5M | — | — | $3.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, August 31, 2024
- Investment income$301,406
- Other gifts$103,721
- From other charities$100,970
- Receipted donations$18,275
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 $250K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $66K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Allen (secretary); Brian Cocks (treasurer); Hank Gelderman (director); John Peets (director); Tony Digiovanni (director); Audrey Partridge (president); Bill Stensson (director); Phil Charal (vice-president); .
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ontario Horticultural Trades Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 874560303RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.