The Foster Hewitt Foundation
Private foundation · Niagara-ON-The-Lake, Ontario · BN 118956754RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($474,594) as filed with the CRA.
The Foster Hewitt Foundation is a private foundation based in Niagara-ON-The-Lake, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $475K 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 35% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 29 qualified donees totalling $380K in 2024, the largest being $80K to UHN Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $241K in 2020 to $1.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Operates to fund other qualified donees that are working in the foundation's area of interest.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $475K | — | — | $380K | $8.5M |
| 2023 | $633K | $381K | — | — | $289K | $7.8M |
| 2022 | -$566K | $395K | — | — | $294K | $7.5M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $376K | — | — | $273K | $8.5M |
| 2020 | $241K | $347K | — | — | $253K | $7.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $380K to 29 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- UHN Foundation$80K
- Beaverton Lions Club Charitable Trust$30K
- Township of Brock$25K
- Room 217 Foundation$25K
- Covenant House Toronto$20K
- Community Care Foundation (Kawartha Lakes)$20K
- Canadian Music Competitions$15K
- Kulikayo Organization for the Support of Children in Uganda$14K
- Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation$10K
- Community Palliative Care & Wellness (Niagara-On-The-Lake)$10K
- Lions Clubs Camp Kirk Foundation$10K
- Kawartha Lakes Food Source$10K
- Community Living Trent Highlands$10K
- Community Care Foundation (Kawartha Lakes)$10K
- Brock Community Food Bank Corporation$10K
- Beaverton Agricultural Society$10K
- A Place Called Home Residence in Lindsay$10K
- Southlake Health Foundation$8,000
- Heartland Dragons$6,000
- YMCA of Central East Ontario$5,000
- Women's Resources of Kawartha Lakes$5,000
- Trillium Lakelands District School Board$5,000
- The Refuge Youth Outreach Centre$5,000
- St. Paul's Leaskdale$5,000
- Kids Help Phone / Jeunesse J' Ecoute$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Julie Ferguson (director); Susan Gifford (director); Bruce Hewitt (director); Mary Bellows Hill (director); Janet Sim (director); Frank Cooper (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Foster Hewitt Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118956754RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.