The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 782771471RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($29,428,536) as filed with the CRA.
The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $22.7M in revenue and $29.4M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 81% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 53 qualified donees totalling $24.4M in 2023, the largest being $2.5M to Sinai Health Foundation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $203.5M in 2020 to $22.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to aplly all or part of the principal and income therefrom from to time to qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $22.7M | $29.4M | — | — | $28.8M | $780M |
| 2023 | $7.9M | $24.9M | — | — | $24.4M | $571.9M |
| 2022 | $8.6M | $11.7M | — | — | $11.3M | $577.1M |
| 2021 | $7.6M | $5.2M | — | — | $5.2M | $509.8M |
| 2020 | $203.5M | $1.1M | — | — | $1.1M | $327.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Granted $24.4M to 53 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Sinai Health Foundation$2.5M
- UHN Foundation$1.5M
- The King?s Trust Canada/la Fondation du Roi au Canada$1.5M
- Order of Malta-Canada/Ordre de Malte-Canada$1.5M
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$1.1M
- Makeway Foundation$1M
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$1M
- Scarborough Health Network Foundation$1M
- Saskatoon Community Foundation$1M
- Oceans North Conservation Society$720K
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada$575K
- Merton College Oxford$557K
- Swim Drink Fish Canada$520K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$500K
- Park People$500K
- Outside the March Theatre Company Inc.$500K
- Les fraternités monastiques des soeurs de Jerusalem - Montréal$500K
- Humanity First$450K
- Writers' Trust of Canada/societe d'Encouragement aux Ecrivains du Canada$429K
- The YMCA of Greater Halifax/dartmouth$388K
- Imagine 1 Day International Organization$350K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$334K
- Women's Shelters Canada$333K
- Alpine Canada Alpin$333K
- True Patriot Love Foundation$333K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Ryan Carey (director); Cornell Wright (director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 782771471RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.