The Maytree Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119244663RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($6,600,576) as filed with the CRA.
The Maytree 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 $6.3M in revenue and $6.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $66K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 61% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 24 qualified donees totalling $2.5M in 2024, the largest being $300K to Ontario Employment Education and Research Centre. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The foundation is committed to reducing poverty in canada. It seeks to accomplish this objective through: (a) a granting program (providing gifts to qualified donees) (b) programming that promotes leadership in poverty reduction and assists people living in poverty to participate fully in their communities (c) research and policy analysis to support public policy to reduce poverty and (d) programming that strengthens the capacity of the community sector.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.3M | $6.6M | $3.5M | — | $2.5M | -$298K |
| 2023 | $5.7M | $5.8M | $2.4M | — | $2.9M | -$31K |
| 2022 | $4.8M | $5.3M | $2.1M | — | $2.8M | $29K |
| 2021 | $4.5M | $4.1M | $1.9M | — | $1.9M | $570K |
| 2020 | $4.8M | $4.7M | $2.2M | — | $2.1M | $163K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.5M to 24 qualified donees:
- Ontario Employment Education and Research Centre$300K
- Disability Without Poverty$250K
- Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness$238K
- Acorn Institute Canada$233K
- FCJ Refugee Centre$211K
- Prosper Canada$170K
- Pivot Legal Society$160K
- Visions of Science Network for Learning$125K
- John Howard Society of Ontario$124K
- Malvern Family Resource Centre$120K
- The Toronto Public Library Foundation$100K
- Anchored Minds Foundation$100K
- The Children's Breakfast Clubs$86K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$60K
- Amadeusz$50K
- Toronto Association of Neighbourhood Services$41K
- Covenant House Toronto$40K
- The Caledon Institute of Social Policy$34K
- Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network$25K
- Canadian Centre for Housing Rights / Centre Canadien du Droit au logement$18K
- The Local to Publishing$12K
- Foodshare Toronto$5,825
- Jump Math$5,000
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$5,000
Received $66K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$1.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Vali Bennett (secretary); Judith Broadbent (director/vice chairman); Matthew Broadbent (vice-chairman); Richard Broadbent (director); Samuel Broadbent (director); Thomas Burns (director); Elizabeth McIsaac (president); Jeffrey Szeto (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Maytree Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119244663RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.