The Slaight Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 856831227RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($42,180,215) as filed with the CRA.
The Slaight Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $27.2M in revenue and $42.2M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 83 qualified donees totalling $41.8M in 2024, the largest being $6.2M to The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
The Foundation supports health institutions social services culture and arts.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $27.2M | $42.2M | — | — | $41.8M | $274.2M |
| 2023 | $22.4M | $64M | — | — | $63.6M | $289.2M |
| 2022 | $13.9M | $40.4M | — | — | $40M | $330.7M |
| 2021 | $87.2M | $34.9M | — | — | $34.6M | $357.2M |
| 2020 | -$2.2M | $28.2M | — | — | $27.9M | $304.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $41.8M to 83 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation$6.2M
- United Way of Greater Toronto$4M
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$2.3M
- Sinai Health Foundation$2.3M
- Daily Bread Food Bank$1.5M
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$1.4M
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation$1.3M
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$1.2M
- ST. Michael's and Providence Foundation$1.1M
- UHN Foundation$1M
- YWCA Canada$1M
- Women's Shelters Canada$1M
- Second Harvest Canada$1M
- Humber River Health Foundation$800K
- Right To Food$800K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$750K
- Women's College Hospital Foundation$717K
- North York General Hospital Foundation$700K
- ST. Joseph's Health Centre Foundation of Toronto$690K
- Toronto East Health Network Foundation$672K
- Scarborough Health Network Foundation$600K
- Toronto Metropolitan University$550K
- Ontario Shores Foundation for Mental Health$540K
- Workman Arts Project of Ontario$500K
- Women's Health in Women's Hands$500K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Gary Slaight (trustee); David Coriat (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Slaight Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 856831227RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.