Orville and Alvera Woolacott Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 835642299RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($149,862) as filed with the CRA.
Orville and Alvera Woolacott Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $38K in revenue and $150K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 10 qualified donees totalling $97K in 2024, the largest being $9,683 to The War Amputations of Canada. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $379K in 2020 to $38K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
Trustee distributes the net income derived therfrom each year in equial shares among the ten registered charitable organizations: the scott mission; the hospital for sick children; the governing council of the salvation army; care canada; victorian order of nurses; the war amputations keys and tag services; heart&stroke foundation; the canadian cancer society; diabetes canada; the arthritis society
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $38K | $150K | — | — | $97K | $2.8M |
| 2023 | $144K | $218K | — | — | $161K | $2.9M |
| 2022 | $127K | $147K | — | — | $110K | $3M |
| 2021 | $105K | $131K | — | — | $86K | $3M |
| 2020 | $379K | $151K | — | — | $115K | $3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $97K to 10 qualified donees:
- The War Amputations of Canada$9,683
- The Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada Trust$9,683
- Scott Mission$9,683
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario$9,683
- CARE Canada$9,683
- Diabetes Ontario$9,683
- Canadian Cancer Society$9,683
- Arthritis Society Canada$9,683
- The Hospital for Sick Children$9,683
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$9,683
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Canada Trust (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Orville and Alvera Woolacott Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 835642299RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.