The Abercrombie Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 850587874RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($588,804) as filed with the CRA.
The Abercrombie 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 $499K in revenue and $589K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 32% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 17 qualified donees totalling $450K in 2024, the largest being $80K to Whistler Adaptive Sports Program Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
Donations of income and/or principal are to be distributed at the discretion of the trustees for the advancement of education the relief of proverty and purposes beneficial to the community as a whole with a particular emphasis on children with disabilities and severe illness youth programs welfare of children and medical research and education.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $499K | $589K | — | — | $450K | $9.4M |
| 2023 | $520K | $565K | — | — | $433K | $8.7M |
| 2022 | $355K | $533K | — | — | $395K | $8.7M |
| 2021 | $870K | $589K | — | — | $450K | $9.8M |
| 2020 | $355K | $496K | — | — | $361K | $9.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $450K to 17 qualified donees:
- Whistler Adaptive Sports Program Society$80K
- British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation$70K
- The Canadian National Institute For The Blind$40K
- University of Victoria$40K
- Victoria Hospitals Foundation$30K
- Surrey Hospitals Foundation$30K
- Neil Squire Society$30K
- Zajac Ranch Society$28K
- Fondation Romeo Dallaire$20K
- YMCA BC$15K
- Anxiety Canada Association - Association Anxiete Canada$15K
- North Island Community Services Society$10K
- Boys and Girls Clubs Foundation of South Coast BC$10K
- Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland$10K
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation$10K
- BC Cancer Foundation$7,500
- Canadian Cancer Society$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Scotiatrust (trustee); Richard Nash (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Abercrombie Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 850587874RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.