Pollock Family Foundation/Fondation de la famille pollock
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 890676174RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-01-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,279,096) as filed with the CRA.
Pollock Family Foundation/Fondation de la famille pollock is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending January 31, 2024, it reported $5.1M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 54% 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 88% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 26 qualified donees totalling $2.3M in 2024, the largest being $1M to North Hatley (registered Municipality). Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $18.1M in 2020 to $5.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The foundation maintains funds of which the principal and income therefrom is used for charitable purposes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.1M | $2.3M | — | — | $2.3M | $44.3M |
| 2023 | -$4.3M | $1.5M | — | — | $1.5M | $41.5M |
| 2022 | $7.1M | $1.4M | — | — | $1.4M | $47.2M |
| 2021 | $4.4M | $1M | — | — | $1M | $41.5M |
| 2020 | $18.1M | $746K | $5,000 | — | $709K | $38.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, January 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$2,745,754
- Other income$1,203,344
- Investment income$1,008,046
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 $2.3M to 26 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- North Hatley (registered Municipality)$1M
- ErinoakKids Centre for Treatment and Development$250K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$200K
- The Children's Breakfast Clubs$200K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$175K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$100K
- Daytrippers Children's Charity$100K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$40K
- Daytrippers Children's Charity$31K
- La Fabrique de la Paroisse de Sainte-Elisabeth$25K
- Grace Village Care Foundation$25K
- The Canada Ireland Foundation$25K
- Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko$10K
- Canadian Cancer Society$10K
- Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board$10K
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$10K
- The Quebec Lodge Foundation$10K
- Theatre Piggery Inc -Piggery Theatre Inc$7,500
- Fondation Habilitas Habilitas Foundation$5,000
- The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation$5,000
- ST. Clement's School$5,000
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$5,000
- The Ottawa Hospital Foundation/la Fondation de l'Hopital d'Ottawa$5,000
- Sinai Health Foundation$5,000
- The Ottawa Food Bank/la Banque d'Alimentation d'Ottawa$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sam Pollock (director); Rachel Pollock (director); Mary Pollock (director); Krista Matheson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Pollock Family Foundation/Fondation de la famille pollock’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890676174RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.