The Marion Armstrong Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 867654758RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($865,973) as filed with the CRA.
The Marion Armstrong Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $2.9M in revenue and $866K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 50% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 84% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 27 qualified donees totalling $854K in 2024, the largest being $125K to Community Living Toronto. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $713K in 2020 to $2.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.9M | $866K | — | — | $854K | $8.4M |
| 2023 | $705K | $893K | — | — | $875K | $6.3M |
| 2022 | $146K | $642K | — | — | $635K | $6.5M |
| 2021 | $484K | $741K | — | — | $729K | $7M |
| 2020 | $713K | $658K | — | — | $647K | $7.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, September 30, 2024
- Receipted donations$1,477,600
- Other income$1,272,167
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $854K to 27 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Community Living Toronto$125K
- Campfire Circle Autour du Feu$105K
- Windmill Microlending$100K
- Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada$50K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$50K
- Headwaters Health CARE Foundation$50K
- Branksome Hall$50K
- Pathways to Education Canada/Passeport pour ma réussite Canada$50K
- Kohai Educational Centre$50K
- The Horatio Alger Association of Canada$25K
- The Canadian Stage Corporation$25K
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada$20K
- Toronto Children's CARE Inc.$20K
- ST. Michael's and Providence Foundation$15K
- Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation$10K
- Cantala Choir Inc.$10K
- UHN Foundation$10K
- Trans Canada Trail Foundation$10K
- Shaw Festival Theatre Canada$10K
- Canadian Tennis Association$10K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$10K
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada$10K
- Grace Church-ON-The-Hill$10K
- Caledon Community Services$10K
- Kids Up Front Foundation (toronto)$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mary Pat Armstrong (president); Robert Armstrong (vice-president); Sally Conrod (secretary); Alison Armstrong (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Marion Armstrong Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 867654758RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.