The Gray Foundation
Private foundation · Strathroy, Ontario · BN 889312971RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,375,807) as filed with the CRA.
The Gray Foundation is a private foundation based in Strathroy, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $10.4M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from donations.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 77% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $1.3M in 2024, the largest being $700K to University of Guelph. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $42 in 2020 to $10.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
To provide donations to fund other charitable organizations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.4M | $1.4M | — | — | $1.3M | $15.2M |
| 2023 | $4.8M | $815K | — | — | $775K | $5.5M |
| 2022 | $114K | $637K | — | — | $625K | $1.5M |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $7,542 | — | — | — | $2.2M |
| 2020 | $42 | $566 | — | — | — | $3,813 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.3M to 7 qualified donees:
- University of Guelph$700K
- London Community Foundation$500K
- Strathroy Middlesex General Hospital Foundation$98K
- The Trinity Church Cemetery$25K
- South Muskoka Hospital Foundation$5,000
- Corporation of the Town of Petrolia$5,000
- London Down Syndrome Association$1,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
William Gray (president); Lynne Gray (treasurer); George Sinker (director & secretary); John Vanderhoeven (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Gray Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889312971RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.