The Appleton Charitable Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 887247633RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($427,036) as filed with the CRA.
The Appleton Charitable Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $11K in revenue and $427K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 26% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $318K in 2024, the largest being $182K to The Winnipeg Art Gallery. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $460K in 2020 to $11K in 2024.
In its own words
The funding of health education arts and environmental programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11K | $427K | — | — | $318K | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $177K | $194K | — | — | $98K | $1.7M |
| 2022 | -$6,019 | $37K | — | — | $32K | — |
| 2021 | $122K | $28K | — | — | $23K | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $460K | $37K | — | — | $34K | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $318K to 6 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Appleton Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887247633RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.