The Betty and Joe Gray Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 804988772RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($92,052) as filed with the CRA.
The Betty and Joe Gray Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $660K in revenue and $92K in expenditures.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 35% 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 26 qualified donees totalling $75K in 2024, the largest being $20K to Amadeus Choir. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The betty and joe gray family foundation was incorporated as a registered charity to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time as donations to other 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 | $660K | $92K | — | — | $72K | $3.5M |
| 2023 | $139K | $89K | — | — | $64K | $2.8M |
| 2022 | -$196K | $95K | — | — | $70K | $2.9M |
| 2021 | $729K | $91K | — | — | $68K | $3.2M |
| 2020 | -$116K | $96K | — | — | $74K | $2.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $75K to 26 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Amadeus Choir$20K
- International Dyslexia Association$5,000
- Municipality of Meaford$5,000
- Doane Uschool$5,000
- Sweetwater Music Festival$3,000
- Royal Conservatory of Music$3,000
- Owen Sound Regional Hospital$3,000
- North York General Hospital$3,000
- Historic Leith Church$3,000
- Church of Our Saviour$3,000
- Church of Our Saviour$3,000
- Women's Musical Club of Toronto$2,000
- Heart and Stroke Foundation$2,000
- Harmony Centre Owen Sound$2,000
- Coal Mine Theatre$2,000
- Tvo Philanthropy Office$1,000
- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society$1,000
- Residential Hospice of Grey-Bruce$1,000
- People for Education$1,000
- Govfest$1,000
- Georgian Bay Forever$1,000
- Elmer Iseler Singers$1,000
- Collingwood General and Marine Hospital$1,000
- Bruce Trial Conservancy$1,000
- Better Living Charitable Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Elizabeth Marilyn Gray (president); Elizabeth Anne Gray (vice president); James Taylor Gray (vice president); Joseph Peter Gray (vice president); Susan Ruth Gray (treasurer); Joseph Taylor Gray (past chair); Mary Louise Gray (chair/secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Betty and Joe Gray Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 804988772RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.