The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 136282126RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($22,626,737) as filed with the CRA.
The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $31.4M in revenue and $22.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 31% from other charities. In 2024, 49 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $15.3M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 20% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 84% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 33 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $15.7M in 2024, the largest being $15.7M to Royal Ontario Museum. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 36 names.
In its own words
To coordinate all private-sector fundraising activities on behalf of the royal ontario museum and the affiliates. To receive and maintain a fund or funds and apply from time to time all or part thereof and/or income therefrom for charitable purposes including: a. The collection and exhibition of objects documents and books of any kind to illustrate and make known to the public the natural history of ontario canada and the world. B. The collection and exhibition of objects documents and books of any kind to illustrate and kind to illustrate and make known to the public the history of man…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $31.4M | $22.6M | — | $359K | $15.7M | $159.2M |
| 2023 | $45.4M | $20.5M | — | $32K | $15M | $150.4M |
| 2022 | $53M | $11.3M | — | $567K | $6M | $125.5M |
| 2021 | $28M | $10.7M | — | $36K | $6.8M | $83.8M |
| 2020 | $22.6M | $20.8M | — | $42K | $15.3M | $66.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $15.7M to 1 qualified donee:
- Royal Ontario Museum$15.7M
Received $15.3M from 49 charities:
- Louise Hawley Stone Charitable Trust$5.7M
- The Jay and Barbara Hennick Family Foundation$5M
- Temerty Foundation$2M
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$700K
- Aqueduct Foundation$408K
- Toronto Foundation$301K
- The Don And Nita Reed Family Foundation$202K
- The Toor Family Foundation$200K
- BenefAction Foundation$162K
- The Jay and Barbara Hennick Family Foundation$75K
- Gillespie Family Foundation$55K
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$50K
- Brookfield Partners Foundation$50K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$39K
- The Browning Watt Foundation$35K
- Trust Under the Will of the Philip and Berthe Morton Foundation$30K
- The Sonshine Family Foundation$25K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- The Whitmer Trudel Charitable Foundation$25K
- Albert and Temmy Latner Family Foundation$25K
- Bay Tree Foundation$25K
- The McLean Foundation$25K
- The Azrieli Foundation$15K
- The Sydney and Florence Cooper Charitable Foundation$13K
- The Mitsui Canada Foundation/la Fondation Mitsui Canada$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions33
- Total compensation, all staff$4.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Shreyas Ajmera (director); Isabel Alves-Vettoretto (director); Daniel Argiros (director); Salvatore Badali (director (ex officio)); Joshua Basseches (director (ex officio)); Giovanni(john) Bianchini (director); Stephen Bowman (director); Mary Anne Bueschkens (director); Helen Burstyn (director); Robert Farquharson (director); Angelita Graham (director); Linda Hasenfratz (director); Barbara Hennick (director); Jennifer Ivey Bannock (director); Christopher Jamroz (director); Sara Zerehi (secretary); Robert Keilty (director); Michael Lee-Chin (director); Salim Manji (director); Jim Mirkopoulos (director); Dan Mishra (director); Patricia Olasker (director); Robert Pierce (director); Robert Pitfield (director); Jordan Sarick (director); Cathy Spoel (director); V.prem Watsa (director); R. Browning Watt (director); Richard Wernham (director); Jeff Willner (director chair); Sandra Wilson (treasurer); Jamie Porter (director); Geofrey Marshall (director); Harry Lebovic (director); David Fleck (director); Sarah Bull (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 136282126RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.