The Schneider Family Foundation
Private foundation · Etobicoke, Ontario · BN 890190242RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($356,372) as filed with the CRA.
The Schneider Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Etobicoke, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2M in revenue and $356K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 65% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $1,510.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 77% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 44 qualified donees totalling $342K in 2024, the largest being $95K to David Foster Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $489K in 2020 to $2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The purpose of the schneider family foundation (the 'foundation') is to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom for charitable organizations that are registered charities under the income tax act. The foundation was incorporated under the laws of the province of ontario as a not-for-profit organization on september 21 1995 and is a registered charity under the income tax act.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2M | $356K | — | — | $344K | $8.6M |
| 2023 | $587K | $343K | — | — | $336K | $6.9M |
| 2022 | $293K | $497K | — | — | $491K | $6.7M |
| 2021 | $5M | $450K | — | — | $444K | $6.9M |
| 2020 | $489K | $428K | — | — | $418K | $2.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$1,316,816
- Investment income$697,696
- Other income$9,000
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 $342K to 44 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- David Foster Foundation$95K
- Canada's Walk Or Fame$85K
- Sharelife$25K
- Scott Mission$17K
- Canadahelps Canadon$11K
- Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Toronto in Canada$10K
- Prostate Cancer Foundation$10K
- Covenant House Toronto$10K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$9,000
- Wounded Warriors Canada$7,500
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$6,500
- The Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation$6,000
- Toronto District School Board$5,500
- Weston Area Emergency Support$5,000
- Trillium Educational Initiative Charitable Corporation$4,600
- Ontario Society for Crippled Children$3,000
- The Toronto Star Children's Charities$3,000
- Second Harvest Canada$2,500
- McMaster University$2,500
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$2,500
- Breakfast Club of Canada$2,500
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$2,500
- West Parry Sound Health Centre Foundation$2,000
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$1,500
- Hospice Vaughan$1,500
Received $1,510 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Walter Schneider (director); Maria Schneider (director); Shelby McDonald.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Schneider Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890190242RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.