The Massey Foundation
Charitable organization · North Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119244457RR0001 · Arts
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($92,048) as filed with the CRA.
The Massey Foundation is a charitable organization based in North Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $613K in revenue and $92K in expenditures.
Compared with 724 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 49% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $73K in 2023, the largest being $57K to The Master and Fellows of Massey College. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $320K in 2020 to $613K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The primary purpose of the foundation is to promote arts and humanities with particular emphasis on education to gift funds to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1(1) and to advance knowledge of preservation of and displaying items of historical significance. On an ongoing basis the foundation provides for the annual award of the massey medal of the royal geographical society and provides for the maintenance of the massey mausoleum a heritage property in mount pleasant cemetery toronto.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $613K | $92K | — | — | $73K | $2.3M |
| 2023 | $232K | $91K | — | — | $73K | $1.8M |
| 2022 | -$188K | $87K | — | — | $65K | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $272K | $69K | — | — | $55K | $1.9M |
| 2020 | $320K | $34K | $10K | — | $16K | $1.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Granted $73K to 2 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Eugene Henry (director); Michael Henry (director); Derek Lloyd (director); Dorothy Lloyd (secretary); John Massey (director; vice chairman); Raymond Massey (director; chairman); Anna Stanford (director); Peter Tovell (director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Massey Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119244457RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.