The Sobey Foundation
Private foundation · Stellarton, Nova Scotia · BN 119254472RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,888,646) as filed with the CRA.
The Sobey Foundation is a private foundation based in Stellarton, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $8.5M in revenue and $2.9M in expenditures.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 75% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 9 qualified donees totalling $2.7M in 2024, the largest being $1M to Canada Children's Hospital Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Foundation made donations to other registered charities during the year.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.5M | $2.9M | — | — | $2.7M | $78M |
| 2023 | $4.2M | $4.4M | — | — | $4.2M | $76.4M |
| 2022 | $11.4M | $3M | — | — | $2.7M | $80M |
| 2021 | $8M | $2.9M | — | — | $2.8M | $87.8M |
| 2020 | $6.2M | $4.4M | $1.5M | — | $2.8M | $70.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.7M to 9 qualified donees:
- Canada Children's Hospital Foundation$1M
- Citizens for a Healthy Pictou County$545K
- Decoste Entertainment Centre Society$450K
- Ship Hector Society$250K
- Town of New Glasgow$244K
- Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada - Nova Scotia Branch$224K
- The United Way of Pictou County$12K
- United Way Serving Saint John Kings and Charlotte Inc.$3,500
- United Way of Colchester County$1,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paul Sobey (trustee); Frank Sobey (chair); Michael Medline (trustee); Heather Sobey-Connors (trustee); Janis Sobey Hames (trustee); Kent Sobey (trustee); Lisa Hames (trustee); Faith Sobey (trustee); Jane Sobey Toth (trustee); Doug Nathason (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Sobey Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119254472RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.