The Bill and Jean Somerville Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 704375096RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($152,767) as filed with the CRA.
The Bill and Jean Somerville Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $384K in revenue and $153K 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 46% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 14 qualified donees totalling $131K in 2024, the largest being $28K to FFF Food For Famine Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $95K in 2020 to $384K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The purpose of the foundation is to maintain a fund or funds and to disburse all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to charitable organization 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 | $384K | $153K | — | — | $131K | $2.9M |
| 2023 | $191K | $115K | — | — | $95K | $2.6M |
| 2022 | $345K | $118K | — | — | $99K | $2.6M |
| 2021 | $404K | $171K | — | — | $150K | $2.3M |
| 2020 | $95K | $117K | — | — | $102K | $2.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $131K to 14 qualified donees:
- FFF Food For Famine Society$28K
- Toronto East Health Network Foundation$25K
- CARE Canada$25K
- International Conservation Fund of Canada Inc.$10K
- Eva's Initiatives for Homeless Youth$10K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$10K
- Environmental Defence Canada$5,000
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$5,000
- Health Partners International of Canada$4,000
- Unhcr Canada$2,500
- Parkinson Canada Inc.$2,000
- North York Harvest Food Bank$2,000
- Scott Mission$1,000
- The Rotary Club of Stratford Charitable Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alexandra Auyeung (director); Adam Miller (director); Alan Munn (director); Amy Munn (director); Joseph Munn (director); Karen Somerville (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Bill and Jean Somerville Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 704375096RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.