Remembering Otto and Marie Pick Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Peterborough, Ontario · BN 763413937RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,001,244) as filed with the CRA.
Remembering Otto and Marie Pick Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Peterborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $7.3M in revenue and $5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% 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 76% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 25 qualified donees totalling $4.8M in 2024, the largest being $3.5M to The Mount Community Centre. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.4M in 2020 to $7.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Funding for registered charities on a regular annual basis - for emergency groups that have been displaced given unforeseen circumstances as approved by the board trustee and - for ugent assistance ( loca regional national or worldwide) based on need due to unforeseen circumstances as approved by the board trustees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.3M | $5M | — | — | $4.8M | $27.5M |
| 2023 | $7.6M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.1M | $25.3M |
| 2022 | $2.8M | $544K | — | — | $484K | $18.9M |
| 2021 | $4.4M | $555K | — | — | $502K | $16.6M |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $467K | — | — | $423K | $12.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4.8M to 25 qualified donees:
- The Mount Community Centre$3.5M
- Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation$1M
- The Redwood...For Women and Children Fleeing Abuse$30K
- Second Harvest Canada$25K
- Qmunity Bc's Queer Trans and Two-Spirit Resource Centre Society$25K
- Eva's Initiatives for Homeless Youth$25K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$25K
- Youth Without Shelter Terra House North Toronto Emergency Residence and Referral Agency$20K
- Indspire$20K
- Canadian Opera Company$15K
- Biglake Arts$15K
- Prince Edward Learning Centre$10K
- The Coal Mine Theatre$10K
- The Canadian Stage Corporation$10K
- United Ostomy Assoc Inc Vancouver British Columbia Chapter$8,000
- United Way Peterborough & District$8,000
- Trinity College$6,000
- The Vancouver Out on Screen Film and Video Society$5,000
- Alternatives for Women in Prince Edward County$5,000
- Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation$3,000
- Trent University$3,000
- The 4TH Line Theatre Company of Peterborough$2,500
- Aapf$1,393
- Queen's University at Kingston$1,000
- Picton Hospital$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Martin Pick (director); Denise Pick (trustee); Charles Pick (trustee); George Pick (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Remembering Otto and Marie Pick Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 763413937RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.