The Sonshine Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 892325846RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($335,512) as filed with the CRA.
The Sonshine Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $336K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 85% 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 65% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 19 qualified donees totalling $311K in 2024, the largest being $75K to The Village Shul and Learning Center of Toronto. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $447K in 2020 to $1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $336K | — | — | $311K | $3.5M |
| 2023 | $276K | $161K | — | — | $156K | $2.8M |
| 2022 | $753K | $254K | — | — | $220K | $2.7M |
| 2021 | $330K | $140K | — | — | $132K | $2.2M |
| 2020 | $447K | $64K | — | — | $56K | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, November 30, 2024
- Receipted donations$852,500
- Investment income$156,327
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 $311K to 19 qualified donees:
- The Village Shul and Learning Center of Toronto$75K
- The Horatio Alger Association of Canada$50K
- The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation$25K
- Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies$25K
- Federation Cja$25K
- Chabad on the Avenue$25K
- Hillel Ontario$20K
- Toronto Care Fund$10K
- The National Golf Club of Canada Foundation$10K
- Save a Child's Heart Foundation$10K
- HR Canada Charitable Organization$10K
- Chai Lifeline (canada) Inc.$10K
- Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights$5,000
- David Goodman Youth Community Trust$5,000
- Hadassah-Wizo Organization Of Canada$2,000
- The Song Shul$1,808
- Na'Amat Canada Inc.$1,000
- Canadian Friends of Boys Town Jerusalem$1,000
- The Canadian Society for the Weizmann Institute of Science$360
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Edward Sonshine (president); Frances Sonshine (secretary treasurer); Jodi Tanentzap (vice president); Daniel Sonshine (director); Jonathan Sonshine (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Sonshine Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892325846RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.