The Chawkers foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119222040RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,252,909) as filed with the CRA.
The Chawkers 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 $5M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 54% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 70 qualified donees totalling $1.1M in 2024, the largest being $184K to The Walrus Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
To receive funds and contributions without any public appeal and to contribute and assist charitable organizations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5M | $1.3M | — | — | $1.1M | $24.7M |
| 2023 | $3.5M | $1.1M | — | — | $952K | $21M |
| 2022 | -$1.3M | $869K | — | — | $720K | $18.6M |
| 2021 | $4M | $767K | — | — | $625K | $20.8M |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $685K | — | — | $559K | $17.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Investment income$4,402,276
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.1M to 70 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Walrus Foundation$184K
- Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Foundation$50K
- Literary Review of Canada$40K
- Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre$38K
- Makeway Charitable Society$38K
- The Canadian Children's Book Centre$35K
- Canada's National History Society/societe d'Histoire Nationale du Canada$32K
- The Reading Partnership$30K
- Raising the Roof chez Toit$30K
- Business in the Streets$30K
- Water First Education and Training Inc.$25K
- Stepstones for Youth$25K
- Restigouche River Salmon Conservation Foundation$25K
- Groupe de recommandations et d'actions pour un meilleur environnement (GRAME)$25K
- DataStream Initiative$25K
- Charlie's Freewheels Youth Education Society$25K
- Small Change Fund$23K
- Trec Charitable Foundation$20K
- The Primitive Integrated Naturalist Education (P.I.N.E.) Project$20K
- Community Forests International$20K
- Bread and Beyond Foundation$20K
- Rockwalk Park Inc.$18K
- Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital Foundation/Fondation de l'hôpital Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins$16K
- B.C. Marine Trails Network Association$15K
- Wildlife Preservation Canada/conservation de la Faune au Ca Nada$15K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$49K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Duncan Alexander (president); Bruce Bennett (director); William Ferguson (director); Aimée Ippersiel (director); Claire Lanctôt (director); Jerry Lazare (secretary); Sarah Palmer (vice-president); John Rich (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Chawkers foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119222040RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.