SGNC Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 864502349RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,798,880) as filed with the CRA.
SGNC Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% 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 93% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 26 qualified donees totalling $1.8M in 2024, the largest being $250K to The Holy Blossom Temple Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply and expend from time to time all or part interest of the income therefrom for charitable purposes of humanitarian welfare educational religious or scientific nature within canada
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.8M | $181K |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $2.5M | — | — | $2.5M | $210K |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $2.6M | — | — | $2.6M | $164K |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $1.1M | — | — | $1M | $127K |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1.1M | — | — | $1.1M | $109K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.8M to 26 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Holy Blossom Temple Foundation$250K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$200K
- UHN Foundation$200K
- Toronto French School Foundation$200K
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$200K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$100K
- Youth Without Shelter Terra House North Toronto Emergency Residence and Referral Agency$75K
- The Samara Centre for Democracy Le Centre Samara pour la démocratie$75K
- Hadassah-Wizo Organization Of Canada$60K
- Evergreen$60K
- Israel Cancer Research Fund (toronto)$54K
- West Parry Sound Health Centre Foundation$50K
- Ve'Ahavta$50K
- Campfire Circle Autour du Feu$50K
- Ne'eman Foundation Canada$50K
- Prosserman Jewish Community Centre$25K
- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies$25K
- Canadian Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro$25K
- Project Give Back for Youth$10K
- North York Harvest Food Bank$10K
- Makeway Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,000
- Harvest Share Community Food Programs$5,000
- FINCA Canada$5,000
- The Canadian Stage Corporation$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nancy Cohen (director); Stephen Goldhar (director); Simeon Brandes (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from SGNC Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 864502349RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.