The Peterson Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 870478310RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,645,828) as filed with the CRA.
The Peterson 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 $4.8M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 67% 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 45% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 14 qualified donees totalling $1.4M in 2024, the largest being $205K to Maggie's: Toronto Sex Workers Action Project. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.3M in 2020 to $4.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.8M | $1.6M | — | — | $1.4M | $29.5M |
| 2023 | $4.5M | $1.5M | — | — | $1.3M | $26.4M |
| 2022 | $4.2M | $1M | — | — | $870K | $23.5M |
| 2021 | $3.1M | $915K | — | — | $750K | $20.3M |
| 2020 | $2.3M | $512K | — | — | $381K | $18.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$3,204,041
- Investment income$834,340
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 $1.4M to 14 qualified donees:
- Maggie's: Toronto Sex Workers Action Project$205K
- Right To Food$200K
- Casey House Foundation$185K
- Thunder Woman Healing Lodge Society$150K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$120K
- Toronto Metropolitan University$100K
- UHN Foundation$100K
- Veterans Transition Network$60K
- 2 - Spirited People of the 1ST Nations$50K
- Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services$50K
- Ontario Shores Foundation for Mental Health$50K
- Friends of Ruby$50K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$50K
- Saint Elizabeth Foundation$30K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Marvin Peterson (trustee); Maureen Carol Ann Peterson (trustee); Kristen Danielle Peterson (trustee); Kathryn Aline Peterson (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Peterson Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 870478310RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.