The Tawse Family Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 820490779RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,086,740) as filed with the CRA.
The Tawse Family Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% 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 4 qualified donees totalling $1.1M in 2024, the largest being $1M to Sinai Health Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.5M in 2020 to $2.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income of such funds to charitable organizations that are also registered charities 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 | $2.4M | $1.1M | — | — | $1.1M | $28.8M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $1.5M | — | — | $1.5M | $27.5M |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.6M | — | — | $1.6M | $26.4M |
| 2021 | $2M | $645K | — | — | $645K | $26.5M |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $6.1M | — | — | $6.1M | $25.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Investment income$2,407,929
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 $1.1M to 4 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Moray Tawse (trustee); Joanne Tawse (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Tawse Family Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 820490779RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.