The Northpine Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 868641374RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($34,856,117) as filed with the CRA.
The Northpine Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $58.5M in revenue and $34.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from donations.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 69% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 52 qualified donees totalling $31.1M in 2024, the largest being $10M to Belmont House Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.7M in 2020 to $58.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Donations to Canadian charitable organizations and impact investments
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $58.5M | $34.9M | $1.9M | — | $31.1M | $65.5M |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $29.2M | $1.5M | — | $27.1M | $41.9M |
| 2022 | $46.8M | $32.9M | — | — | $31.4M | $67.9M |
| 2021 | $50.7M | $7.2M | — | — | $6.8M | $54M |
| 2020 | $6.7M | $2M | — | — | $2M | $10.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $31.1M to 52 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Belmont House Foundation$10M
- New Market Funds Society$5M
- The John Howard Society of Victoria$2M
- Refugee Career Jumpstart Project$950K
- Helping Hands International$880K
- Ontario Trillium Foundation$750K
- Hope Air$750K
- Discovery Health CARE Foundation Inc.$550K
- Sakeenah Canada$531K
- Caribbean African Canadian (CAFCAN) Social Services$500K
- Town of Grand Falls Windsor NL$500K
- Talent Beyond Boundaries$500K
- The Seventh Step Society of Canada$500K
- Makeway Foundation$500K
- Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia$500K
- Vancouver Island University$462K
- Community Sector Council of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.$450K
- Clean Prosperity Foundation$400K
- South Asian Autism Awareness Centre$350K
- Tno - the Neighbourhood Organization$334K
- Pinball Foundation$325K
- The Native Clan Organization Inc.$310K
- TAIBU Community Health Centre$300K
- SucSeed Foundation$300K
- Town of Elliston$300K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Catherine Phillips (director); John Phillips (treasurer); Aatif Baskanderi (ceo).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Northpine Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 868641374RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.