The Bob Rumball Foundation for the Deaf
Public foundation · North York, Ontario · BN 892423740RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($754,388) as filed with the CRA.
The Bob Rumball Foundation for the Deaf is a public foundation based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $775K in revenue and $754K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 88% from donations, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $86K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 7% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 91% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $299K in 2024, the largest being $215K to The Bob Rumball Camp of the Deaf. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $2.4M in 2020 to $775K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Raising funds for donations to associated charities and other deaf related causes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $775K | $754K | — | $7,464 | $299K | -$464K |
| 2023 | $697K | $884K | — | $11K | $522K | -$1.2M |
| 2022 | $919K | $759K | — | $5,383 | $397K | -$301K |
| 2021 | $867K | $1.1M | — | $28K | $726K | -$460K |
| 2020 | $2.4M | $2.5M | — | $110K | $2.2M | -$260K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $299K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $86K from 17 charities:
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- Temerty Foundation$25K
- Edwards Charitable Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,734
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,462
- The 1949 Foundation$2,000
- The Roger and Edith Davis Foundation$2,000
- The Roger and Edith Davis Foundation$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,981
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$720
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$570
- Abundance Canada$500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$250
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$250
- Deaf Team Ministries$200
- United Way of Greater Toronto$23
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$207K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lino Zecca (director); Derek Rumball (president); Montgomery Hardy (director); David Rumball (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Bob Rumball Foundation for the Deaf’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892423740RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.