The Peter and Shelagh Godsoe Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 829344811RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,474,647) as filed with the CRA.
The Peter and Shelagh Godsoe 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 $7.3M in revenue and $7.5M in expenditures.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 70% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 12 qualified donees totalling $7M in 2024, the largest being $5M to Sinai Health System. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.5M in 2020 to $7.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Provided gifts to qualified donees for the advancement of education the relief of poverty and other purposes beneficial to the community as a whole including specifically health
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.3M | $7.5M | — | — | $7M | $67M |
| 2023 | $26.3M | $7.4M | — | — | $6.8M | $64.3M |
| 2022 | $8.7M | $8.2M | $39K | — | $7.6M | $65M |
| 2021 | $5.1M | $3.2M | $8,567 | — | $2.4M | $78.4M |
| 2020 | $3.5M | $3.1M | $10K | — | $2.5M | $67.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $7M to 12 qualified donees:
- Sinai Health System$5M
- Harvard University$687K
- Leland Stanford Junior University (stanford University)$597K
- ST. Michael's and Providence Foundation$250K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$100K
- Covenant House Toronto$100K
- ST. George's College Foundation$84K
- Columbia University in the City of New York$82K
- University of California San Francisco$69K
- The Church of ST Clement Eglinton$30K
- Heart and Stroke Foundation$25K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$20K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Shelagh Godsoe (director); Eden Godsoe (director); Cynthia Godsoe (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Peter and Shelagh Godsoe Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 829344811RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.