The Alva Foundation
Private foundation · Mount Albert, Ontario · BN 890915978RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($629,749) as filed with the CRA.
The Alva Foundation is a private foundation based in Mount Albert, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $630K in expenditures.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 58% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 19 qualified donees totalling $553K in 2024, the largest being $50K to Amici Children's Camp Charity. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The foundation has a mandate to receive funds and contributions from individuals and organizations without public appeal and to contribute those funds at the discretion of the board of directors to charitable organizations and institutions in canada that serve the areas of children in need and families at risk.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $630K | — | — | $553K | $11.8M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $627K | — | — | $558K | $11.1M |
| 2022 | -$1.2M | $462K | — | — | $436K | $10.6M |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $380K | — | — | $350K | $12.3M |
| 2020 | $948K | $271K | — | — | $243K | $11.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $553K to 19 qualified donees:
- Amici Children's Camp Charity$50K
- East Side Family Place Society$50K
- ReForest London$50K
- Women's Hostels Incorporated$50K
- Foodshare Toronto$50K
- Tyendinaga Township Public Library Board$30K
- The Hastings and Prince Edward Learning Foundation$30K
- Creative and Natural Outdoor Experience Inc$30K
- Succession$30K
- The Centennial Infant and Child Centre Foundation$30K
- Camp Quality Canada$30K
- Community Development Council of Quinte$30K
- The Redwood...For Women and Children Fleeing Abuse$28K
- Heart Beats-Children's Society of Calgary$15K
- East Wellington Community Services Inc.$10K
- The Canadian National Institute for the Blind$10K
- The Children's Foundation Serving Hastings Northumberland and Prince Edward Counties$10K
- Quinte Conservation Association$10K
- Rainbow Railroad$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Matthew Holden (treasurer); Breanne Mathers (chair of donations comm.); Andrew McMartin (secretary); Tim McMartin (investment manager); Alison Vilaca (president); Matthew Foy (director); Rebecca Mathers-Phillips (director); Kimberly McIntyre (director); Amy Fisher (director); Anna Burns (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Alva Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890915978RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.