The Primrose Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 758769491RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($73,874) as filed with the CRA.
The Primrose Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $175K in revenue and $74K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 83% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 22 qualified donees totalling $73K in 2024, the largest being $5,000 to World Vision Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation is a private one whose principal purpose is to receive and maintain funds to apply to charities registered under the income tax act.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $175K | $74K | — | — | $73K | $1.6M |
| 2023 | $135K | $71K | — | — | $70K | $1.5M |
| 2022 | $188K | $41K | — | — | $40K | $1.5M |
| 2021 | $145K | $38K | — | — | $37K | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $155K | $38K | — | — | $37K | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $73K to 22 qualified donees:
- World Vision Canada$5,000
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$5,000
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$5,000
- Art Gallery of Ontario$5,000
- Sharelife$4,000
- Covenant House Toronto$4,000
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$3,000
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada$3,000
- The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation$3,000
- Canadian Opera Company$3,000
- The National Ballet of Canada/le Ballet National du Canada$3,000
- McMichael Canadian Art Foundation$3,000
- The Toronto Public Library Foundation$3,000
- Canadian Cancer Society$3,000
- Alzheimer Society Canada$3,000
- Scott Mission$3,000
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$3,000
- Trinity College$3,000
- Victoria University$3,000
- Daily Bread Food Bank$3,000
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation$3,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$150
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ronald Tam (director); Deborah Tam (director); Ronald Tam (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Primrose Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 758769491RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.