The Barnes Family Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Thornhill, Ontario · BN 834375354RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($426,345) as filed with the CRA.
The Barnes Family Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Thornhill, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $532K in revenue and $426K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 68% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 11 qualified donees totalling $418K in 2024, the largest being $100K to The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $286K in 2020 to $532K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
As a private foundation its primary purpose is to receive and maintain a fund and to apply all or part of the principals and income therefrom from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered charities under the income tax act ( canada)
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $532K | $426K | $8,845 | — | $418K | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $385K | $344K | $7,807 | — | $337K | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $162K | $706K | — | — | $697K | $990K |
| 2021 | $629K | $258K | — | — | $244K | $1.9M |
| 2020 | $286K | $244K | — | — | $234K | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $418K to 11 qualified donees:
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$100K
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation$100K
- Huron University College Foundation$50K
- Huron University College Foundation$30K
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$25K
- Alzheimer Society of Ontario$25K
- The University of Western Ontario$25K
- North York General Hospital Foundation$20K
- Rise Asset Development$20K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$13K
- Canadian Tennis Association$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gary Barnes (president); Josephine Barnes (director); Catherine Barnes (secretary); Tony Barnes (director); Scott Gibson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Barnes Family Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 834375354RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.