The Gordon Linkletter Family Fund
Private foundation · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 865769749RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($89,728) as filed with the CRA.
The Gordon Linkletter Family Fund is a private foundation based in Waterloo, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $84K in revenue and $90K in expenditures.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 15 qualified donees totalling $55K in 2024, the largest being $14K to House of Friendship. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $159K in 2020 to $84K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The organization distributes funds to charitable organizations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $84K | $90K | — | — | $55K | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $80K | $75K | — | — | $42K | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $115K | $76K | — | — | $41K | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $115K | $72K | — | — | $42K | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $159K | $76K | — | — | $44K | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $55K to 15 qualified donees:
- House of Friendship$14K
- Kidsability Centre for Child Development Foundation$6,000
- Kitchener-Waterloo Young Women's Christian Association$4,000
- Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region$4,000
- Waterloo Regional Health Network Foundation$3,500
- The Children's Wish Foundation$3,500
- Lisaard and Innisfree Hospice$3,000
- Hospice of Waterloo Region$3,000
- Camino Wellbeing + Mental Health$2,000
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario$2,000
- Leilani's Hope$2,000
- Teen Challenge Farm Inc.$2,000
- Independent Living Waterloo Region$2,000
- Hopespring Cancer Support Centre$2,000
- Camp Quality Canada$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gordon Linkletter (president); Anne Linkletter (director); Dean Linkletter (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Gordon Linkletter Family Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 865769749RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.