The Murray Frum Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 891445975RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($171,333) as filed with the CRA.
The Murray Frum Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $75K in revenue and $171K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 64% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 28 qualified donees totalling $168K in 2024, the largest being $25K to Shorefast Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Stratford festival royal conservatory of music loran's scholar ajax hospital foundation gardiner museum bravo niagara royal conservatory of music north york food bank 519 community centre crow's theatre shorefest foundation camh gift of light shaw festival
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $75K | $171K | — | — | $168K | $793K |
| 2023 | $562K | $123K | — | — | $119K | $889K |
| 2022 | $61K | $109K | — | — | $105K | $450K |
| 2021 | $76K | $149K | — | — | $145K | $497K |
| 2020 | $81K | $134K | — | — | $129K | $570K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $168K to 28 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Shorefast Foundation$25K
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation$20K
- Bravo Niagara! Festival of the Arts$15K
- Crow's Theatre$10K
- The Royal Conservatory of Music$10K
- Ajax Pickering Hospital Foundation$10K
- McMichael Canadian Art Foundation$10K
- Royal Oak Community School Inc.$6,000
- The 519 Church Street Community Centre$5,000
- North York Harvest Food Bank$5,000
- Fondation du Musee des Beaux- Arts de Montreal$5,000
- Next Canada$5,000
- Shelter Movers$5,000
- The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art$5,000
- Loran Scholars Foundation$5,000
- The Royal Conservatory of Music$5,000
- Shaw Festival Theatre Canada$4,000
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada$3,500
- Dusk Dances Inc.$3,000
- Food Allergy Canada / Allergies Alimentaires Canada$2,500
- Human Rights Watch Canada$2,500
- HR Canada Charitable Organization$2,000
- Aurea Foundation$1,000
- The Royal Regiment of Canada Foundation$1,000
- Rainbow Railroad$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nancy Lockhart (director); Michelle Murphy-Beaudet (director); Susan Okun (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Murray Frum Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891445975RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.