The Pindoff Family Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 810951962RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,997,726) as filed with the CRA.
The Pindoff Family Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $8.2M in revenue and $3M in expenditures.
In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $343.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 40% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 35 qualified donees totalling $2.5M in 2024, the largest being $300K to Heart for Africa (canada). Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $745K in 2020 to $8.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The distribution of funds to registered charities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.2M | $3M | — | — | $2.5M | $56.2M |
| 2023 | $1.9M | $3.7M | — | — | $2M | $50.9M |
| 2022 | $6M | $6.5M | — | — | $2M | $52.7M |
| 2021 | $11.4M | $2.3M | — | — | $1.8M | $53.3M |
| 2020 | $745K | $2M | — | — | $1.5M | $44.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.5M to 35 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Heart for Africa (canada)$300K
- The Sandbox Project Charity$200K
- Smiles Foundation$200K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$170K
- Horizons of Friendship$150K
- Farmers Helping Farmers Inc.$150K
- Steelworkers Humanity Fund Inc./ le Fonds Humanitaire des Metallos Inc.$125K
- The Canadian Jesuit Missions$120K
- Canada-Israel Children's Centres$110K
- PIH Partners In Health Canada$100K
- L'Arche Canada Foundation$100K
- Ide International Development Enterprises Association Inc.$100K
- Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation$75K
- Wells of Hope International Development Inc.$50K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$50K
- Rayjon Share CARE of Sarnia Inc.$50K
- Rainbow Faith and Freedom$50K
- Cor Unum Africa Charitable Organization$50K
- Chalice (Canada)$50K
- Canadian Foodgrains Bank Association Inc/association de la Banque Canadienne de Grains Inc.$50K
- Alma Children's Education Foundation$50K
- West Park Healthcare Centre Foundation$35K
- UHN Foundation$30K
- Stephen Lewis Foundation$25K
- La Fondation École Secondaire Loyola /Loyola High School Foundation$20K
Received $343 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gary Stern (secretary); Peter McMullen (chair of the board); Kim Townsend (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Pindoff Family Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 810951962RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.