The Sam Sorbara Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Woodbridge, Ontario · BN 119253300RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($284,294) as filed with the CRA.
The Sam Sorbara Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Woodbridge, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $129K in revenue and $284K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 78% from other charities.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 41 qualified donees totalling $284K in 2024, the largest being $103K to The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $3.5M in 2020 to $129K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation had distributed funds to religious charitable and educational organizations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $129K | $284K | — | — | $284K | $396K |
| 2023 | $24K | $474K | — | — | $474K | $551K |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $2.5M | $110 | — | $2.5M | $1M |
| 2021 | $873K | $1.4M | $333 | — | $1.4M | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $3.5M | $1.3M | $1,941 | — | $1.3M | $2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $284K to 41 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$103K
- Sinai Health Foundation$100K
- The Havergal College Foundation$10K
- Sharelife$10K
- Sinai Health Foundation$10K
- Willowdale Rotary Club Community Service Foundation$5,100
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$5,000
- Humber River Hospital Volunteer Association$5,000
- Chai Lifeline (canada) Inc.$5,000
- Canada Charity Partners$5,000
- University of Ontario Institute of Technology$2,500
- Emunah Canada$2,500
- North York General Hospital Foundation$2,200
- Youth Assisting Youth$2,000
- Jennifer Ashleigh Children's Charity$2,000
- Alzheimer Society of Toronto$1,600
- Villa Charities Foundation$1,500
- The Welcome Collective/Le collectif bienvenue$1,000
- Save a Child's Heart Foundation$1,000
- The Vitanova Foundation$1,000
- Birthright of Vaughan$1,000
- Stevenson Memorial Hospital Foundation$500
- Toronto Children's CARE Inc.$500
- Hospice Vaughan$500
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Edward Sorbara (president); Marcella Tanzola (vice president); Gregory Sorbara (vice president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Sam Sorbara Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119253300RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.