The Barron Cowan Foundation
Private foundation · Peterborough, Ontario · BN 858332554RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($251,262) as filed with the CRA.
The Barron Cowan Foundation is a private foundation based in Peterborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $251K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 63% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 12 qualified donees totalling $231K in 2024, the largest being $100K to Northumberland & Newcastle Board of Education Charitable Trust. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
In accordance with its mandate the organization has maintained and endowment fund the income from which has been used to support its ongoing charitable purposes via gifts to other registered charities during the year.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $251K | — | — | $231K | $7M |
| 2023 | $791K | $193K | — | — | $180K | $5.5M |
| 2022 | $760K | $152K | — | — | $135K | $4.9M |
| 2021 | $466K | $111K | — | — | $92K | $4.3M |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $100K | — | — | $95K | $4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $231K to 12 qualified donees:
- Northumberland & Newcastle Board of Education Charitable Trust$100K
- Peterborough Youth Services$75K
- Kawartha Land Trust$20K
- YWCA Peterborough Haliburton$5,000
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada/conseil de Direction de l'Armée du Salut du Canada$5,000
- The Otonabee Region Conservation Authority$5,000
- Peterborough-Hastings Trans Canada Trail Association$5,000
- Peterborough Green-Up Association$5,000
- Kawartha Food Share$5,000
- The Owl Foundation$2,000
- Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre$2,000
- Crowe Valley Conservation Foundation$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Barron Cowan (director); Andrew Cowan (director); Shannon Cowan (director); Daniel Cowan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Barron Cowan Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 858332554RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.