Otto and Marie Pick Foundation
Private foundation · Lindsay, Ontario · BN 883858714RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($934,386) as filed with the CRA.
Otto and Marie Pick Foundation is a private foundation based in Lindsay, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $12.6M in revenue and $934K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 76% from donations.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 46% 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 23 qualified donees totalling $805K in 2024, the largest being $60K to Stella's Place Assessment and Treatment Centre. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.4M in 2020 to $12.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Otto and marie pick foundation improves opportunities for children and youth in the community nationally and internationally. The foundation supports not-for-profit organizations that enhance quality of life through education physical and mental health food security and recreational programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $12.6M | $934K | — | — | $805K | $32.5M |
| 2023 | $523K | $829K | — | — | $735K | $15.7M |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $514K | — | — | $451K | $16M |
| 2021 | $2.4M | $433K | — | — | $379K | $13.9M |
| 2020 | $2.4M | $395K | — | — | $350K | $12M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $805K to 23 qualified donees:
- Stella's Place Assessment and Treatment Centre$60K
- Kawartha-Haliburton Children's Foundation$60K
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Kawartha Lakes Foundation$60K
- Gakino'amaage: Teach For Canada$50K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$50K
- Indspire$50K
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$50K
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation$50K
- Second Harvest Canada$40K
- Kawartha Lakes Food Source$40K
- Youth Without Shelter Terra House North Toronto Emergency Residence and Referral Agency$30K
- Youth Emergency Shelter of Peterborough Incorporated$30K
- United Way Haliburton Kawartha Lakes$30K
- United Way of Northwest Territories$30K
- Women's Resources of Kawartha Lakes$25K
- Ross Memorial Hospital Foundation$25K
- MABELLEarts$25K
- War Child Canada$20K
- The Sir Sandford Fleming College of Applied Arts and Technology$20K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$20K
- Boundless Adventures Association$20K
- Camp Kawartha Incorporated$10K
- Amici Children's Camp Charity$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
June Pick (chair); Stephanie Pick (treasurer); Sophie Howe (secretary); Bobbi-Leigh Pick (director); Lisa Cameron (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Otto and Marie Pick Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 883858714RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.