The Bruce and Audrey Groves Family Foundation
Private foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 737696294RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($98,127) as filed with the CRA.
The Bruce and Audrey Groves Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $325K in revenue and $98K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 83% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 76% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 11 qualified donees totalling $96K in 2024, the largest being $50K to The Ottawa Hospital Foundation/la Fondation de l'Hopital d'Ottawa. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation receives and maintains a fund or funds and applies all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to charitable organizations 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 | $325K | $98K | — | — | $96K | $1.9M |
| 2023 | $300K | $90K | — | — | $88K | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $332K | $76K | — | — | $74K | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $301K | $75K | — | — | $73K | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $287K | $72K | $2,163 | — | $70K | $939K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $96K to 11 qualified donees:
- The Ottawa Hospital Foundation/la Fondation de l'Hopital d'Ottawa$50K
- Pillars Trust Fund inc.$20K
- Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation/fondation du Cancer de la Region d'Ottawa$7,000
- Colorectal Cancer Canada$6,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,000
- La Fondation École Secondaire Loyola /Loyola High School Foundation$2,000
- City House Foundation$2,000
- Organisation Catholique Canadienne pour le Développement et la Paix$2,000
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$2,000
- The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation$2,000
- Refuge pour les Femmes de l'Ouest de l'Ile/west Island Women's Shelter$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bruce Groves (chairman and trustee); Audrey Groves (trustee); Michael Groves (trustee and secretary/treasure).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Bruce and Audrey Groves Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 737696294RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.