The Ouellette Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 883622516RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,129,584) as filed with the CRA.
The Ouellette Family 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 $1.9M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 92% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 88% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 30 qualified donees totalling $1.1M in 2024, the largest being $700K to Museum of Comptemporary Art Toronto Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2020 to $1.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Made gifts to qualified donees in accordance with foundation objectives most notably gifts to the museum of contemporary art of $300 000 and the united way of $126 000 and the architectural conservacny ontario of $32 429
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.9M | $1.1M | — | — | $1.1M | $3.1M |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $612K | — | — | $605K | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $84K | $622K | — | — | $613K | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $789K | — | — | $781K | $2M |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $566K | — | — | $561K | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.1M to 30 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Museum of Comptemporary Art Toronto Canada$700K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$145K
- Fred Victor Centre$50K
- Taking It Global Youth Association$25K
- Crow's Theatre$25K
- Cifar - Canadian Institute for Advanced Research$25K
- Toronto Biennial of Art$20K
- The Toronto International Festival of Authors$10K
- The University of Western Ontario$10K
- The Excelsis Group$10K
- The Bentway Conservancy$10K
- Sharelife$10K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$10K
- The Yonge Street Mission$9,982
- Scott Mission$9,000
- The Toronto Public Library Foundation$8,000
- The Salvation Army$7,000
- Quartier Ephemere Centre d'Arts Visuels$6,000
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$5,000
- Koffler Centre of the Arts$5,000
- Canadian Centre for Architecture / Centre Canadien d'Architecture$5,000
- Evergreen$4,000
- The Master and Fellows of Massey College$3,000
- ST Thomas' Church$2,500
- Chinese Canadian Museum Society of British Columbia$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephane Ouellette (director); Gilles Ouellette (director & secretary); Julia Ouellette (director & president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Ouellette Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 883622516RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.