The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation
Charitable organization · Oshawa, Ontario · BN 886450907RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($861,983) as filed with the CRA.
The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation is a charitable organization based in Oshawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.5M in revenue and $862K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% 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 79% of peers.
It reported gifts to 49 qualified donees totalling $840K in 2024, the largest being $360K to The Governing Council of the University of Toronto. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $561K in 2020 to $3.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Our main focus continues to be medical research which represented the majority of our grants. The other two main areas of support include services to indigenous people and international development (literacy/ education/ training). The presbyterian church of canada and environmental are other areas of support.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.5M | $862K | — | — | $840K | $20M |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $875K | — | — | $851K | $17.3M |
| 2022 | -$673K | $636K | — | — | $612K | $16.7M |
| 2021 | $3.5M | $605K | — | — | $587K | $18M |
| 2020 | $561K | $549K | — | — | $530K | $15.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $840K to 49 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$360K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$50K
- The Trustee Board of the Presbyterian Church in Canada$40K
- Elephant Thoughts Educational Outreach$25K
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$20K
- Elimu Development Projects$20K
- Ecosource Mississauga$20K
- Water First Education and Training Inc.$15K
- Right to Play International$15K
- Hope Story$15K
- Veterinarians Without Borders/veterinaires Sans Frontieres$10K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$10K
- Trellis Society for Community Impact$10K
- Transforming Cleft$10K
- Seeds of Diversity Canada$10K
- Mind Your Plastic$10K
- Horizons of Friendship$10K
- Greenbelt Foundation$10K
- Friends of Honduran Children$10K
- Evergreen$10K
- Code$10K
- Change Her World$10K
- Kinvia$10K
- Watersheds Canada$5,000
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$13K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
William Hunter (director); Elizabeth Giesbrecht (director/president); Wayne Giesbrecht (director/vp/treasurer); Gayle Giesbrecht (director/secretary); Martha Hunter (director); Claude Durand (director); Stephen Giesbrecht (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 886450907RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.