The Catherine and Fredrik Eaton Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 872045364RR0001 · Protective Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,193,363) as filed with the CRA.
The Catherine and Fredrik Eaton Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under protective health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.1M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% 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 24 qualified donees totalling $1.1M in 2024, the largest being $350K to National Sport Trust Fund - Ontario. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $498K in 2020 to $5.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
The catherine and fredrik eaton charitable foundation provides financial support to other qualified donees. The foundation uses its own initiative to identify the qualified donees it supports. During 2024 grants were awarded to various causes in arts and culture education health environment social services and other community benefits.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.1M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.1M | $27.4M |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $38K | — | $1.2M | $25.2M |
| 2022 | $836K | $833K | — | — | $842K | $25.4M |
| 2021 | $886K | $59K | $43K | — | — | $26.6M |
| 2020 | $498K | $756K | — | — | $714K | $20.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.1M to 24 qualified donees:
- National Sport Trust Fund - Ontario$350K
- Timothy Eaton Memorial Church$110K
- The Royal Canadian Geographical Society$100K
- Williams College$100K
- The Bishop Strachan School Foundation$100K
- West Parry Sound Health Centre$79K
- Headwaters Health CARE Foundation$50K
- Hobart & William Smith Colleges$50K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$30K
- Belmont House Foundation$25K
- Upper Canada College$25K
- The University of New Brunswick$25K
- The Fraser Institute$20K
- Colby College$10K
- Huron University College$10K
- University Health Network$10K
- Muskoka Steamships & Discovery Centre$5,000
- The Canadian Canoe Museum$5,000
- Delta Waterfowl Foundation$3,000
- Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters Foundation$2,500
- Restigouche River Salmon Conservation Foundation$2,000
- Pine River Institute$1,000
- Canoe Kayak Canada$1,000
- Atlantic Salmon Federation (canada) / Federation du Saumon Atlantique (canada)$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Fredrik Eaton (trustee); Flora Eaton-Coakley (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Catherine and Fredrik Eaton Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 872045364RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.