Robert Kerr Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 815430806RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,182,581) as filed with the CRA.
Robert Kerr Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 16% 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 20% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 32 qualified donees totalling $817K in 2024, the largest being $75K to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $729K in 2020 to $2.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Programs to provide assistance or support to homeless persons children or youths
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $1.2M | — | $37K | $817K | $18.2M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1.4M | — | — | $1.1M | $16.9M |
| 2022 | -$1M | $1.1M | — | $25K | $685K | $17.3M |
| 2021 | $4.9M | $1.1M | — | — | $774K | $19.4M |
| 2020 | $729K | $777K | $178K | — | $303K | $15.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $817K to 32 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto$75K
- Eva's Initiatives for Homeless Youth$56K
- Ve'Ahavta$50K
- Jennifer Ashleigh Children's Charity$50K
- Campfire Circle Autour du Feu$50K
- Book Clubs for Inmates Inc./ Circles de livres pour detenues Inc.$42K
- Lifted Literacy and Leadership$35K
- Regeneration Outreach Community$30K
- Makeway Charitable Society$30K
- Abiona Centre for Infant & Early Mental Health$30K
- Regeneration Outreach Community$26K
- The Lighthouse Program for Grieving Children$25K
- Philip Aziz Centre for Hospice Care$25K
- Mentoring Juniors Kids Organization (MJKO)$25K
- I-Think$25K
- Haven on the Queensway$25K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Toronto Branch$25K
- 5N2 Soup Kitchen Project$25K
- SafePet Ontario$20K
- Pueblo Science$20K
- Macaulay Centres for Children$20K
- The Peel Learning Foundation$20K
- Youth Without Shelter Terra House North Toronto Emergency Residence and Referral Agency$15K
- Restorative Justice Housing Ontario$15K
- The Veritas Foundation/La Fondation Veritas$15K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joel Rose (president); Rustom Satchu (director); Andrew Freedman (director); Lorne Rose (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Robert Kerr Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 815430806RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.