The Rogers Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 889115176RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($13,010,690) as filed with the CRA.
The Rogers Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $73M in revenue and $13M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from donations.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 95% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $13M in 2024, the largest being $3.3M to UHN Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $17.6M in 2020 to $73M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The objectives of the foundation are to receive and maintain a fund and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom for charitable purposes to any recipient the donation to whom would qualify under the income tax act (canada) as a charitable gift a gift to her majesty or a gift to an institution made pursuant to the cultural property export and import act.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $73M | $13M | — | — | $13M | $67.8M |
| 2023 | $10.3M | $14.1M | — | — | $14M | $7.8M |
| 2022 | $20.1M | $11.9M | — | — | $11.9M | $11.6M |
| 2021 | $31K | $13.4M | — | — | $13.3M | $3.4M |
| 2020 | $17.6M | $105M | — | — | $87.5M | $16.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, November 30, 2024
- Receipted donations$70,000,000
- Investment income$3,024,755
- Other income$532
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 $13M to 4 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Anderton (director); Cindy Tee-Sykes (director); Robert Reeves (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Rogers Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889115176RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.