Tesari Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 839475878RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($914,665) as filed with the CRA.
Tesari Charitable 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 $1.8M in revenue and $915K in expenditures.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 29% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 9 qualified donees totalling $89K in 2024, the largest being $40K to UHN Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $387K in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
1) donate funds to local charities 2) the foundation through agency agreement with charities in the philippines participated in the following programs: …..a) operation of a medical clinic (provide medical and dental services) …..b) literacy education …..c) operating a mission style chapel community centre and museum in toledo city philipines; …..d) livelihood training programs 3) toilet/sanitation project in toledo city philippines
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $915K | $613K | — | $89K | $10.4M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $770K | — | $121K | $9.6M |
| 2022 | $212K | $3.8M | $958K | — | $131K | $9.5M |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $935K | — | $108K | $13.1M |
| 2020 | $387K | $1.7M | $1.4M | — | $137K | $13M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Other income$1,479,136
- Investment income$320,202
- Receipted donations$1,450
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 $89K to 9 qualified donees:
- UHN Foundation$40K
- ST. Joseph's Health Centre Foundation of Toronto$25K
- ST. Michael's and Providence Foundation$6,500
- Art Gallery of Ontario$5,000
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$5,000
- The National Ballet of Canada/le Ballet National du Canada$2,500
- Canadian Opera Company$2,500
- The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation$2,000
- The Seeing Eye Organization$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$50K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Flora Knorr (treasurer); Mary Jean Glynn (director and secretary); Lilian Knorr (director vice president); Lillian Overs (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Tesari Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 839475878RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.