The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 889408175RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($834,070) as filed with the CRA.
The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $3.3M in revenue and $834K in expenditures.
In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $48.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 87 qualified donees totalling $719K in 2024, the largest being $85K to Canadian Film Centre. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $65K in 2020 to $3.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation maintains funds and allocates the income earned to charitable organizations for the advancement of education and the performing arts.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $834K | — | — | $719K | $17M |
| 2023 | $211K | $817K | — | — | $749K | $14.5M |
| 2022 | $36K | $553K | — | — | $503K | $15.1M |
| 2021 | $2.3M | $583K | — | — | $510K | $15.7M |
| 2020 | $65K | $492K | — | — | $427K | $13.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, November 30, 2024
- Other income$1,860,597
- Investment income$456,962
- Other gifts$48
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 $719K to 87 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Canadian Film Centre$85K
- Usc School of Cinematic Arts$50K
- Chapel & York Canada Foundation$50K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$20K
- Victoria University$15K
- Toronto Metropolitan University$15K
- Action against hunger ACF (Canada)$15K
- Headwaters Health CARE Foundation$12K
- The University of Western Ontario$10K
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$10K
- Ontario College of Art & Design Foundation$10K
- Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific and United World Colleges (canada) Inc.$10K
- Kingston Canadian Film Festival$10K
- Chaloner Children's Charity Canada$10K
- Amref Health Africa in Canada$10K
- Actors Fund of Canada$10K
- Action against hunger ACF (Canada)$10K
- The Toronto Star Children's Charities$8,000
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada$8,000
- Performing Arts Lodges Toronto (pal Toronto)$8,000
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$8,000
- Interval House$8,000
- The Dorothy Ley Hospice$8,000
- Canada's National Ballet School l'Ecole Nationale de Ballet du Canada$8,000
- Campfire Circle Autour du Feu$8,000
Received $48 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kevin Jewison (director); Michael Jewison (director); Jennifer Jewison-Synder (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889408175RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.