The Browning Watt Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 893019760RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($50,320) as filed with the CRA.
The Browning Watt 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 $1.4M in revenue and $50K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 73% from donations.
Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 14 qualified donees totalling $686K in 2024, the largest being $525K to University of Guelph. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $811K in 2020 to $1.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
To receive and maintain funds and to apply them for charitable purposes
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $50K | — | — | — | $5.9M |
| 2023 | $793K | $44K | — | — | — | $5.3M |
| 2022 | $778K | $44K | — | — | — | $4.7M |
| 2021 | $875K | $47K | — | — | — | $4.1M |
| 2020 | $811K | $151K | — | — | $121K | $3.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $686K to 14 qualified donees:
- University of Guelph$525K
- The Upper Canada College Foundation$56K
- The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation$35K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- North York General Hospital Foundation$15K
- Campfire Circle Autour du Feu$10K
- Soulpepper Theatre$5,500
- Habitat for Humanity Greater Toronto Area$5,000
- Côté Danse$5,000
- Toronto Summer Music Foundation$5,000
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$1,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,000
- New Circles Community Services$1,000
- Huntsville District Memorial Hospital Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Roland Watt (president & director); Ray Bush (director); George McCraney (director); Larry O'Reilly (director); Gaylen Duncan (director); Andrew Mitchell (director); Carolyn Watson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Browning Watt Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 893019760RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.