The Bulmash-Siegel Private Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 728167131RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($401,855) as filed with the CRA.
The Bulmash-Siegel Private 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 $168K in revenue and $402K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 68% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 30 qualified donees totalling $383K in 2024, the largest being $50K to Canadian Foundation for Children Youth and the Law Inc.. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
To give money to qualified donees as such term is defined under the income tax act (canada) as charitable donations to be used 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 | $168K | $402K | — | — | $383K | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $315K | — | — | $307K | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $203K | $233K | — | — | $223K | $402K |
| 2021 | $433K | $164K | — | — | $157K | $432K |
| 2020 | $177K | $14K | — | — | — | $163K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $383K to 30 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Canadian Foundation for Children Youth and the Law Inc.$50K
- Tarragon Theatre$48K
- Others$46K
- Women's College Hospital Foundation$35K
- Canadahelps Canadon$30K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$25K
- The CanAssist African Relief Trust$20K
- Outside the March Theatre Company Inc.$18K
- Fall for Dance North Festival Inc.$13K
- N I F Canadian Charitable Trust$10K
- The Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning$8,000
- Sustainable Thinking and Expression on Public Space (STEPS) Initiative$7,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,000
- Ballet Jorgen Canada$7,000
- Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief$7,000
- Soulpepper Theatre Company$6,000
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$5,000
- The Coal Mine Theatre$5,000
- Nightwood Theatre Company$5,000
- Crow's Theatre$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,000
- Citadel + Compagnie$3,500
- The Canadian Children's Dance Theatre Inc.$3,500
- The Toronto Public Library Foundation$3,000
- Ipsita Nova Dance Projects Inc.$3,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Laurence Siegel (trustee); Judith Siegel (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Bulmash-Siegel Private Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 728167131RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.