The Weber Foundation
Private foundation · Midland, Ontario · BN 882070360RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($15,422,525) as filed with the CRA.
The Weber Foundation is a private foundation based in Midland, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $15.4M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 17 qualified donees totalling $3.2M in 2023, the largest being $2.5M to North Simcoe Emergency and Transitional Residential Projects. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.1M in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Gifts to other qualified donee's (charities)
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $15.4M | — | — | $15.3M | $10.1M |
| 2023 | $719K | $3.3M | — | — | $3.2M | $23.8M |
| 2022 | $2M | $1M | — | — | $869K | $25.6M |
| 2021 | $11.2M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.6M | $25.8M |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $693K | — | — | $620K | $13.9M |
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$636,937
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, 2023
Granted $3.2M to 17 qualified donees:
- North Simcoe Emergency and Transitional Residential Projects$2.5M
- Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre Foundation$125K
- Georgian Bay General Hospital Foundation$125K
- Midland Cultural Centre Inc.$100K
- YMCA of Simcoe/muskoka$100K
- Orillia Soldiers' Memorial Hospital Foundation$80K
- Life4Kids Canada$20K
- Ronald McDonald House Charities Toronto$15K
- CLH Foundation$15K
- Warm and Cozy Children's Charity$15K
- We Are Home Free$15K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada/conseil de Direction de l'Armée du Salut du Canada$15K
- Friends of Wye Marsh$15K
- We are the Villagers$10K
- Opportunity International Canada/opportunité Internationale Canada$10K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Simcoe$10K
- MS Canada SP Canada$250
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Frederick Hacker (trustee); Gordon Sedgwick (trustee); John Walker (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Weber Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 882070360RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.