Thames Valley Education Foundation
Charitable organization · London, Ontario · BN 872481361RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,538,531) as filed with the CRA.
Thames Valley Education Foundation is a charitable organization based in London, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 42% from donations, 23% from other charities. In 2024, 27 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $257K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $215K in 2024, the largest being $214K to Thames Valley School District. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The thames valley education foundation exists to build partnerships with the community that enhance opportunities in our schools and enrich public education. Our mission is to provide enhanced learning opportunities for the thames valley district school board students by fostering support from all sectors of society. This includes the provision of scholarships awards and bursaries to students. Programs also include the learning enhancement fund and the caring fund. The learning enhancement fund exists to provide our schools with the opportunity to apply for funding of their own unique priori…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.1M | $68K | $215K | $9.3M |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.5M | — | — | $329K | $8.5M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.3M | — | — | $136K | $8.4M |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.4M | — | — | $160K | $9.3M |
| 2020 | $2M | $1.2M | — | — | $493K | $8.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $215K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $257K from 27 charities:
- Phil McNamee Charitable Foundation$80K
- Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation$50K
- London Community Foundation$26K
- Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation$20K
- Oxford Community Foundation$16K
- AFC Foundation$13K
- Paldos Charitable Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,516
- Canada Gives$5,000
- The Lawson Foundation$5,000
- Kiwanis Club of Middlesex Bequest and Endowment Fund$4,500
- Thames Valley School District$4,206
- Kiwanis Club of Forest City - London$2,500
- BenefAction Foundation$2,000
- John Clarence Inman Memorial Bursary$1,800
- ST Thomas Field Naturalist Club Inc.$1,500
- Elgin-ST. Thomas Community Foundation$1,379
- The Lawson Foundation$1,348
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,040
- Southwestern Ontario Youth for Christ$1,000
- Second Blessings - Parkhill$1,000
- The Lawson Foundation$1,000
- NMDHS Reunion 2001 Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$696
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$670
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Marianne Larsen (director); David Foster (director/president); Sheri Polhill (director); Cathy Lynd (director); James Stewart (director); Carol Fortnum (director); William Tucker (director); Alexander Ryan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Thames Valley Education Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 872481361RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.