The Fitzhenry Family Foundation
Private foundation · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 119233211RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($605,444) as filed with the CRA.
The Fitzhenry Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Scarborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $295K in revenue and $605K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 25 qualified donees totalling $481K in 2024, the largest being $50K to Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
To receive and maintain funds and apply all or part of the principal and income from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered charities under the income tax act ( canada )
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $295K | $605K | — | — | $501K | $7.6M |
| 2023 | $207K | $338K | — | — | $264K | $7.9M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $327K | — | — | $240K | $8.1M |
| 2021 | $320K | $285K | — | — | $222K | $6.8M |
| 2020 | $280K | $300K | — | — | $244K | $6.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $481K to 25 qualified donees:
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$50K
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$25K
- Greenpeace Canada Education Fund$20K
- The Safehaven Project for Community Living$20K
- SafePet Ontario$20K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$20K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$20K
- Community CARE Durham$20K
- Ducks Unlimited Canada - Canards Illimites Canada$20K
- Amnesty International Canadian Section (english Speaking)$20K
- Western Canada Wilderness Committee$20K
- Veterinarians Without Borders/veterinaires Sans Frontieres$20K
- Polar Bears International (canada) Inc.$20K
- The Owl Foundation$20K
- Lola Ya Bonobo$20K
- Indspire$20K
- Ontario Nature Inc.$20K
- La Fondation Quebecoise Fauna/the Quebec Fauna Foundation$20K
- Canadian Sea Turtle Network Incorporated$20K
- Lucy Maud Montgomery Society of Ontario$10K
- Federation of British Columbia Naturalists$10K
- The British Columbia Conservation Foundation$10K
- Covenant House Toronto$10K
- Durham District School Board Charitable Trust$6,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Hollister Doll (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Fitzhenry Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119233211RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.