The Jim Meekison & Carolyn Keystone Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 881178511RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,161,063) as filed with the CRA.
The Jim Meekison & Carolyn Keystone 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 $2.5M in revenue and $1.2M 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 75% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 14 qualified donees totalling $1.1M in 2024, the largest being $275K to Shaw Festival Theatre Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $731K in 2020 to $2.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The objective of the jim meekison & carolyn keystone foundation is to provide funds to charitable organizations in canada for the purpose of research education and the establishment and maintenance of charitable activities agencies or institutions and to aid any such organizations already established.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.1M | $13.3M |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1M | — | — | $999K | $12M |
| 2022 | -$854K | $609K | — | — | $572K | $11.2M |
| 2021 | $2.6M | $806K | — | — | $784K | $12.7M |
| 2020 | $731K | $470K | — | — | $445K | $10.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.1M to 14 qualified donees:
- Shaw Festival Theatre Canada$275K
- UHN Foundation$244K
- The University of British Columbia$150K
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$100K
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation$100K
- West Parry Sound Health Centre Foundation$50K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$50K
- Literal Change$50K
- Sinai Health Foundation$25K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$25K
- Shelter Movers$25K
- Project Give Back for Youth$10K
- The Art Gallery at Harbourfront$5,000
- Georgian Bay Forever$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
James Meekison (chair); Carolyn Keystone (vice-chair); Ira Posen (treasurer); Harry Josh Posen (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Jim Meekison & Carolyn Keystone Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 881178511RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.