The Renette and David Berman Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 812563393RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($613,305) as filed with the CRA.
The Renette and David Berman Family 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 $1.4M in revenue and $613K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% 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 63% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 9 qualified donees totalling $338K in 2023, the largest being $100K to The Royal Conservatory of Music. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $245K in 2020 to $1.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Making of gifts and grants to qualified and non-qualified donees (cultural and relief of poverty donees)
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $613K | — | — | $566K | $10.1M |
| 2023 | $359K | $345K | — | — | $338K | $9.3M |
| 2022 | $254K | $264K | — | — | $260K | $9.2M |
| 2021 | $275K | $276K | — | — | $275K | $9.2M |
| 2020 | $245K | $244K | — | — | $240K | $9.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Granted $338K to 9 qualified donees:
- The Royal Conservatory of Music$100K
- Canada's National Ballet School l'Ecole Nationale de Ballet du Canada$100K
- Fall for Dance North Festival Inc.$50K
- Art Gallery of Ontario$50K
- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies$25K
- Collingwood General & Marine Hospital Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,820
- The People Bridge Charitable Foundation$1,000
- Toronto Festival of Arts Culture and Creativity$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2023)
David Berman (trustee); Renette Berman (trustee); Gary Berman (trustee).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Renette and David Berman Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 812563393RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.