The Leonard Simpson Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 890833791RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($246,391) as filed with the CRA.
The Leonard Simpson Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $480K in revenue and $246K in expenditures.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 57% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 14 qualified donees totalling $225K in 2024, the largest being $50K to The Brenda Simpson Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $180K in 2020 to $480K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The foundation receives and maintains funds and applies all or part of the principal and income therefrom to charitable organizations
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $480K | $246K | — | — | $225K | $6.7M |
| 2023 | $415K | $249K | — | — | $235K | $6.5M |
| 2022 | $1M | $226K | — | — | $219K | $6.3M |
| 2021 | $449K | $225K | — | — | $221K | $6.2M |
| 2020 | $180K | $309K | — | — | $306K | $6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $225K to 14 qualified donees:
- The Brenda Simpson Foundation$50K
- Sinai Health Foundation$50K
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$50K
- Canadian Magen David Adom for Israel/Magen David Adom Canadien pour Israel$25K
- Neshama Hospice$13K
- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies$10K
- The Toronto Jewish Film Foundation$5,000
- CSRG Canadian Security Research Group$5,000
- Abraham Peace Initiative$5,000
- Israel Cancer Research Fund (toronto)$5,000
- Holy Blossom Temple$4,080
- MS Canada SP Canada$1,000
- The Jerusalem Foundation of Canada Inc. la Fondation Jerusalem du Canada Inc.$1,000
- Jacs Toronto$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Leonard Simpson (president); Alan Simpson (vice president); Brenda Medjuck (vice president); Fern Reich (vice president); Miriam Simpson (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Leonard Simpson Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890833791RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.