The Karen Green Charitable Trust
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 800805277RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2023-11-03. Split of total expenditures ($3,756,135) as filed with the CRA.
The Karen Green Charitable Trust is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 3, 2023, it reported $32K in revenue and $3.8M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations.
Compared with 3,292 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 69% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 12 qualified donees totalling $3.7M in 2023, the largest being $2M to Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $4M in 2020 to $32K in 2023. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
To distribute assets to one or more charities which are qualified donees for the purposes of the income tax act.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2023
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $32K | $3.8M | — | — | $3.7M | $44K |
| 2022 | -$1.7M | $17.9M | — | — | $17.8M | $3.8M |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $751K | — | — | $598K | $23.9M |
| 2020 | $4M | $963K | — | — | $844K | $22.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Granted $3.7M to 12 qualified donees:
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$2M
- Forests Canada$500K
- Covenant House Toronto$250K
- Right to Play International$250K
- Canada-Israel Children's Centres$250K
- ORT Canada$250K
- The Toronto Jewish Film Foundation$50K
- Kaeja d'Dance$50K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$48K
- ORT Canada$25K
- Beit Hazikaron$16K
- The Toronto Jewish Film Foundation$9,700
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2023)
George Fischer (trustee); Sean Fischer (trustee); Ryan Fischer (trustee).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Karen Green Charitable Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 800805277RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.