The Ralph M. Barford Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 869747493RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,563,109) as filed with the CRA.
The Ralph M. Barford 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 $8.8M in revenue and $3.6M 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 51% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 35 qualified donees totalling $3.1M in 2024, the largest being $500K to Uts Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $669K in 2020 to $8.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The foundation's mission is to support various health care organizations particularly as they relate to multiple sclerosis individual scholarships at a variety of educational institutions and other charities through financial donations
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.8M | $3.6M | — | — | $3.1M | $62.2M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $2.2M | — | — | $1.8M | $57M |
| 2022 | -$2.7M | $2.2M | — | — | $1.8M | $56.8M |
| 2021 | $12M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.4M | $61.7M |
| 2020 | $669K | $2M | $72K | — | $1.7M | $51.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.1M to 35 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Uts Foundation$500K
- Loran Scholars Foundation$450K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$425K
- ST. Michael's and Providence Foundation$346K
- MS Canada SP Canada$250K
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research$200K
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation$200K
- Amici Children's Camp Charity$75K
- The Reading Partnership$60K
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation$60K
- UHN Foundation$50K
- Branch Out Neurological Foundation$50K
- Touching Tiny Lives Foundation$50K
- North York Women's Shelter$50K
- Taking It Global Youth Association$50K
- Indspire$32K
- London Regional Children's Museum$30K
- Queen's University at Kingston$30K
- McMaster University$30K
- Muskoka Steamships & Discovery Centre$25K
- Second Harvest Canada$20K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$20K
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$13K
- Canadian Unicef Committee$10K
- Toronto Foundation for Student Success$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$157K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Barford (treasurer); Elizabeth Malcolm (chair); Jane Manolakas (director); J Mark Richardson (director); John Allen (director); Kathryn Kathryn Podrebarac (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Ralph M. Barford Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 869747493RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.