Paul Barber Foundation
Private foundation · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 762384147RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($505,906) as filed with the CRA.
Paul Barber Foundation is a private foundation based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $506K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 33% of peers. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 15 qualified donees totalling $400K in 2024, the largest being $100K to The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $8.5M in 2022 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
It is a family-run organization based in the greater toronto area that it dedicated to improving the lives of canadians by supporting transformational life-changing programmes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $506K | — | — | $400K | $9.2M |
| 2023 | $1M | $464K | — | — | $383K | $8.4M |
| 2022 | $8.5M | $613K | $328K | — | — | $7.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $400K to 15 qualified donees:
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$100K
- YMCA of Southwestern New Brunswick Inc.$73K
- Home Suite Hope Shared Living Corp.$30K
- Toronto Foundation for Student Success$30K
- Pathways to Education Canada/Passeport pour ma réussite Canada$30K
- New Brunswick Youth Orchestra Inc.$30K
- Workman Arts Project of Ontario$20K
- CWB Welding Foundation$20K
- Soulpepper Theatre Company$17K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$17K
- Story Planet$12K
- Making Changes Employment Association of Alberta$10K
- The Hammer Band-From Violence to Violins$5,000
- Great Big Children's Theatre$5,000
- Philanthropic Foundations Canada/fondations Philanthropiques Canada$1,470
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$11K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carol Barber (director); Adrian Barber (director); Thea Barber (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Paul Barber Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 762384147RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.