The Carson Family Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Stouffville, Ontario · BN 786476747RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($46,892) as filed with the CRA.
The Carson Family Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Stouffville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $118K in revenue and $47K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 53% from other charities. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $138K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 94% 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 8 qualified donees totalling $47K in 2024, the largest being $30K to University of Waterloo. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1M in 2021 to $118K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
Working with university of waterloo's office of student awards have created three (3) $10 000 per year merit-based scholarships for university of waterloo computer science students. A ten (10) year funding commitment agreement was signed with the university of waterloo with the fourth payment of $30 000 made in december 2024. Various other donations were made to other qualified donees during calendar 2024.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $118K | $47K | — | — | $47K | $843K |
| 2023 | $196K | $593K | — | — | $593K | $772K |
| 2022 | $232K | $48K | — | — | $48K | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $1M | $42K | — | — | $42K | $984K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $47K to 8 qualified donees:
- University of Waterloo$30K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$8,000
- Townsend Smith Foundation$6,000
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$720
- The Baycrest Centre Foundation$720
- Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Toronto in Canada$540
- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada/societe de Leucemie & Lymphome du Canada$540
- Campfire Circle Autour du Feu$360
Received $138K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Donald Carson (director); Vanessa Carson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Carson Family Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 786476747RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.