The Toronto French School Foundation
Publicly funded institution · North York, Ontario · BN 119259455RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,568,307) as filed with the CRA.
The Toronto French School Foundation is a public foundation based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $3.8M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 60% from donations, 20% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $215K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 13% 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 1 qualified donee totalling $1.9M in 2024, the largest being $1.9M to Toronto French School. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 20 names.
In its own words
The mission of the TFS Foundation ('Foundation') is to promote philanthropy within Toronto French School community. The Foundation receives all charitable donations in support of goals identified by the School and is responsible for the investment and stewardship of the endowed funds.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.8M | $2.6M | — | $109K | $1.9M | $12.1M |
| 2023 | $4.4M | $2.8M | — | $37K | $1.9M | $10.8M |
| 2022 | $2.2M | $1.9M | — | $0 | $1.4M | $9.2M |
| 2021 | $3.2M | $1.1M | — | $2,606 | $688K | $8.9M |
| 2020 | $2.8M | $2M | — | — | $1.4M | $6.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.9M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $215K from 13 charities:
- Aqueduct Foundation$49K
- The Wes and Christine Hall Family Foundation$33K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$29K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$26K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$25K
- WCPD Foundation$15K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$10K
- Hyatt Family Foundation$10K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$3,756
- Toronto Foundation$2,000
- Hyatt Family Foundation$2,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$28
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kristen Owen-Bechara (director); Heslie Chua (director); Caroline Helbronner (director); Shael Kalef (director); Blake Langill (director); Jennifer Lassonde (director); Mary Ann Lew (director); Vanessa Mulroney (director); Stephanie Thompson (director); Catherine Yanosik (officer); Lesley Vaughan (director); Shih Chieh Sunny Lowe (director); Lynn Margaret Francis (director); Issa Guindo (director); Sylvia Tokmakjian (director); Andrew Ipekian (director); Rachel Beckerman (director); JingQuan (Kevin) Cai (director); Fei Jiang (director); Trent Mell (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Toronto French School Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119259455RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.