The Blidner Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 866496912RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,898,004) as filed with the CRA.
The Blidner Family 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 $34.5M in revenue and $2.9M in expenditures.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% 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 36 qualified donees totalling $2.9M in 2024, the largest being $410K to The Baycrest Centre Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $9.9M in 2020 to $34.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
To maintain a fund or funds and to gift all or part of the principal and income to qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $34.5M | $2.9M | $2,500 | — | $2.9M | $94.8M |
| 2023 | $14M | $3.3M | $3,000 | — | $3.3M | $63.2M |
| 2022 | -$23.6M | $2.3M | — | — | $2.3M | $52.5M |
| 2021 | $25.3M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.8M | $78.4M |
| 2020 | $9.9M | $1.4M | — | — | $1.4M | $54.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.9M to 36 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Baycrest Centre Foundation$410K
- UHN Foundation$300K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$290K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$175K
- Moorelands Community Services$175K
- Parkdale Community Food Bank$150K
- Fort York Food Bank a Non-Profit Corporation$150K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$150K
- Kawartha Land Trust$110K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$100K
- The National Ballet of Canada/le Ballet National du Canada$100K
- Save a Child's Heart Foundation$100K
- Holy Blossom Temple$100K
- Beit Halochem Canada /aid to Disabled Veterans of Israel (canada)$100K
- Toronto Foundation for Student Success$80K
- Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation$75K
- Colorectal Cancer Canada / Cancer Colorectal Canada$50K
- Canada's National Ballet School l'Ecole Nationale de Ballet du Canada$30K
- Power to Be Adventure Therapy Society$25K
- Lay-Up Youth Basketball$25K
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$20K
- March of Dimes Canada$20K
- The Elgin County Library Board$20K
- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies$16K
- Canadahelps Canadon$15K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jeffrey Blidner (director); Ilsa Blidner (director); Stacey Kline (director); Meredith Blidner (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Blidner Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 866496912RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.