The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 832309892RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,044,683) as filed with the CRA.
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2M in revenue and $2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 38% from donations, 61% from other charities. In 2024, 34 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 83% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $998K in 2020 to $2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 50 names.
In its own words
1. 1. The michael j fox foundation for parkinson’s research is the world’s largest nonprofit funder of parkinson’s research. It is dedicated to accelerating a cure and ensuring the development of improved therapies for the estimated six million people worldwide living with parkinson’s disease today. The foundation pursues its goals through an aggressively funded highly targeted research program coupled with the active global engagement of scientists parkinson’s patients and care partners business leaders clinical-trial participants and donors. The foundation has fundamentally altered t…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2M | $2M | $2M | — | — | $0 |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.2M | — | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.6M | $8,847 | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.5M | — | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $998K | $998K | $976K | — | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.1M from 34 charities:
- Weston Family Foundation$621K
- The Firstline Foundation$150K
- Canadahelps Canadon$61K
- Canadahelps Canadon$61K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$51K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$22K
- BenefAction Foundation$22K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$14K
- Aqueduct Foundation$12K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$10K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$9,450
- WCPD Foundation$5,000
- Frog's Breath Foundation$5,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$4,667
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$4,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,310
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,998
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,277
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,940
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,392
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,000
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$680
- United Way of Greater Moncton and Southeastern New Brunswick Region Inc.\centraide de la Region du Grand Moncton et du Sud Est du Nouveau-New Brunswick Inc.$635
- Canada Donates Inc.$372
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Fox (executive committee); Glenn Batchelder; Jon Brooks; Frank D'Amelio; David Einhorn; Akbar Gbajabiamila; Holly Andersen (executive committee); Susan Bilotta (executive committee); Barry Cohen (executive committee); John Daly (executive committee); Karen Finerman; Willie Geist; Bonnie Bandeen (executive committee); Mark Booth; Andrew Creighton; Donny Deutsch; Nelle Fortenberry (executive committee); Gabe Gelman; David Glickman; Skip Irving (executive committee); Alex Krys; Barry Malkin; Andrew O'Brien (executive committee); Tracy Pollan; Hartley Richardson; Anne Holloway (executive committee); Edward (ed) Kalikow; Amar Kuchinad (executive committee); Colin Masson; Douglas Ostrover; Jack Quinn; Ari Richter; Melanie Isbill Bolch; Jeffrey Keefer; Marc Lipschultz; Ofer Nemirovsky; Lisa Piazza; Ryan Reynolds; Frederick Rowe JR; Carolyn Schenker; Robert (woody) Shackleton (executve committee); Bonnie Strauss; George (sonny) Whelen; Curtis Schenker; Anne-Cecilie Engell Speyer; Rick Tigner; Peter Zaffino; Richard Schnall; George Stephanopoulos; Fred Weiss (executive committee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 832309892RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.