The Savvas Chamberlain Family Foundation
Private foundation · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 846047603RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,906,784) as filed with the CRA.
The Savvas Chamberlain Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Waterloo, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.9M in revenue and $2.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 77% 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 84% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 29 qualified donees totalling $2.9M in 2024, the largest being $1M to Wilfrid Laurier University. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.3M in 2020 to $5.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The purpose of the Foundation is to receive and maintain funds in order to help the needy and the poor such as children and families whose income is below the national poverty level. Some funds will also be directed to hospitals education and arts and culture. The Foundation intends to fulfill its vision by providing funding to a broad range of registered local provincial and national charitable organizations that share in the same purpose.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.9M | $2.9M | — | — | $2.9M | $33.9M |
| 2023 | $8M | $1.1M | — | — | $1.1M | $30.9M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $891K | — | — | $870K | $24.1M |
| 2021 | $6.1M | $812K | — | — | $795K | $23.6M |
| 2020 | $3.3M | $539K | — | — | $532K | $18.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.9M to 29 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Wilfrid Laurier University$1M
- ST Mary's General Hospital Foundation Kitchener-Waterloo$850K
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$300K
- K-W Working Centre for the Unemployed$200K
- Sinai Health Foundation$200K
- Waterloo Regional Health Network Foundation$100K
- Mennohomes Inc.$63K
- Mennonite Central Committee Ontario$30K
- Humane World Foundation Canada$25K
- Hospice of Waterloo Region$25K
- The Food Bank of Waterloo Region$15K
- Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Community of London and Vicinity$10K
- The Greek Orthodox Community of Saints Peter and Paul Church$10K
- Cfuw K-W Charitable Fund$10K
- Canadian International Council$7,000
- Perimeter Institute$5,000
- Family & Children's Services of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo Foundation$5,000
- Covenant House Toronto$2,000
- Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Waterloo$2,000
- Canadian Cancer Society$1,000
- The Canadian Mental Health Association$1,000
- The Hellenic Initiative Canada$1,000
- Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund$1,000
- Waterloo-Wellington Science & Engineering Fair$1,000
- The Pregnancy Centre$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$16K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Savvas Chamberlain (president & director); Christine Chamberlain (vicepresident & director); Maria Harper (officer & director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Savvas Chamberlain Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 846047603RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.