The Chapnik Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 792398901RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($77,185) as filed with the CRA.
The Chapnik 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 $47K in revenue and $77K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from donations.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 29 qualified donees totalling $77K in 2024, the largest being $14K to Charities Aid Foundation Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
The foundation has one donor the chapnik family. Aside from one donation to a us charity the foundation distributes funds only to other registered charities in canada and donates to various causes relating to poverty research social welfare education sanitation etc. The foundation has no volunteers and raises no money aside from the donations received from the chapnik family.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $47K | $77K | $357 | — | $77K | $22K |
| 2023 | $129K | $105K | — | — | $105K | $52K |
| 2022 | $177K | $149K | $143K | — | $143K | $28K |
| 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $77K to 29 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Charities Aid Foundation Canada$14K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$10K
- Kehilla Residential Programme$10K
- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies$10K
- Haiti Mama Canada$6,500
- La Fondation Kanpe /The Kanpe Foundation$5,000
- The Baycrest Centre Foundation$5,000
- Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation$2,575
- Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation$2,575
- University of Northern British Columbia$2,000
- PIH Partners In Health Canada$1,000
- West Parry Sound Health Centre Foundation$1,000
- Canada-Israel Children's Centres$1,000
- One Family Fund Canada$550
- Hillel Ontario$500
- Uptown CYP$500
- Balance for Blind Adults$500
- Crohn's and Colitis Canada / Crohn et Colite Canada$500
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada$500
- Kayla's Children Centre$500
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$500
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$500
- Movember Canada$253
- Alzheimer Society of Toronto$250
- Campfire Circle Autour du Feu$215
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jason Chapnik (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Chapnik Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 792398901RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.