The Terry Fox Foundation
Public foundation · Port Coquitlam, British Columbia · BN 108099979RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($36,095,959) as filed with the CRA.
The Terry Fox Foundation is a public foundation based in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $41M in revenue and $36.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 72% from donations. In 2024, 226 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.3M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 20% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 37 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $23.1M in 2024, the largest being $23.1M to The Terry Fox Research Institute. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $26.6M in 2020 to $41M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
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Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $41M | $36.1M | $1.9M | $6.4M | $23.1M | $86.1M |
| 2023 | $30.9M | $26.4M | $976K | $5.1M | $15.8M | $81.2M |
| 2022 | $28.1M | $25.9M | $399K | $5.3M | $16.2M | $76.7M |
| 2021 | $29.6M | $22.3M | $2M | $4M | $13.8M | $74.5M |
| 2020 | $26.6M | $33.4M | $1.6M | $675K | $24M | $67.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $23.1M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $3.3M from 226 charities:
- Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation$1.1M
- Procure Alliance / Alliance Procure$250K
- Toronto District School Board$239K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$191K
- The Peel District School Board$164K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$162K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$105K
- Canadahelps Canadon$80K
- Canadahelps Canadon$80K
- York Catholic District School Board$72K
- The McGuire Family Foundation$60K
- The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division$53K
- Ottawa-Carleton District School Board$50K
- Greater Essex County District School Board$40K
- Edwards Charitable Foundation$30K
- Niagara Catholic District School Board$28K
- Calgary Flames Foundation$25K
- J and W Murphy Foundation$25K
- The Board of Education of School District No. 33 (Chilliwack)$23K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$21K
- The Peace Wapiti School Division$21K
- The Keg Spirit Foundation$20K
- The Rocky View School Division$19K
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$17K
- Board of Education of the Regina Roman Catholic Separate School Division No. 81 of Saskatchewan$16K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions37
- Total compensation, all staff$4.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephen Bear (vice chair); Angela Carmichael (director); Diane Dou (director); John Kearsey (director); Katherine Kay (director); Michael Rossi (chair); Jim Woodgett (director); Paul Alofs (director); Joel Feldberg (director); Mary Kitchen (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Terry Fox Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108099979RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.