The Empire Club Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 132157108RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($40,915) as filed with the CRA.
The Empire Club Foundation is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $85K in revenue and $41K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 22% from donations, 78% from other charities. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $13K.
Compared with 673 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 0% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The empire club foundation is focused on ensuring that the rich history of speeches in the empire club's archives are archived digitally for the use of all canadians and we are using current empire club events to raise awareness through the use of newsletters that tie current hosted events and speakers to this rich history
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $85K | $41K | $0 | — | $0 | $62K |
| 2023 | $39K | $29K | $0 | — | $0 | $18K |
| 2022 | $40K | $25K | — | — | — | $7,489 |
| 2021 | — | $26K | — | — | — | -$7,534 |
| 2020 | — | $72 | — | — | — | $9,816 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $13K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gordon McIvor (president); Verity Sylverster (vice president); Karin Treiberg (treasurer); Margaret Perry (director); Frederic Jackman (director); Michel Fortier (director); Nicole Miller (director); Barbara Jesson (director); Garreth Seltzer (director); Kristin Phillips (director); Ralph Nigro (director); Sitara Dhanani (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Empire Club Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132157108RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.