The Harry E Foster Charitable Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 132116914RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,405,948) as filed with the CRA.
The Harry E Foster Charitable Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $4.7M in revenue and $1.4M 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 42% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 68 qualified donees totalling $1.1M in 2024, the largest being $65K to Special Olympics Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $4.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The harry e. Foster charitable foundation provides funds primarily for programs and projects for people with developmental disabilities. Other areas of interest include alzheimer's disease and community organizations assisting the disadvantaged.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.7M | $1.4M | — | — | $1.2M | $27.7M |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.1M | — | — | $876K | $24.4M |
| 2022 | -$1.3M | $1.1M | — | — | $869K | $23.4M |
| 2021 | $3.3M | $996K | — | — | $787K | $25.8M |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $960K | — | — | $757K | $23.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.1M to 68 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Special Olympics Canada$65K
- Community Living Toronto$56K
- Community Living North Halton$50K
- Investing in Children Inc.$35K
- The Centennial Infant and Child Centre Foundation$30K
- Grocer 4 Good Ability Development Program$30K
- Centre for Opportunities Respect & Empowerment$30K
- Quinte Vitality and Social Support$26K
- The Participation House Project (durham Region)$25K
- Lakeridge Health Foundation$25K
- The Hub for Beyond 21 Foundation$25K
- Community Living Huntsville$25K
- Second Harvest Canada$20K
- Moorelands Community Services$20K
- UHN Foundation$20K
- Jennifer Ashleigh Children's Charity$20K
- Deafblind Ontario Foundation$20K
- Community Living Wallaceburg$20K
- Community Living Central York$20K
- Community Living Oakville$20K
- Community Living London$19K
- Canadian Special Olympics Foundation$18K
- Downe Syndrome Association of Peterborough$18K
- Ve'Ahavta$16K
- Therapeutic Riding Association of Ottawa-Carleton Inc.$15K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$30K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Blake Murphy (treasurer); Robert Torrens (vice president); James Thomson (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Harry E Foster Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132116914RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.