The Whitmer Trudel Charitable Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 820840965RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($802,850) as filed with the CRA.
The Whitmer Trudel Charitable Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $118K in revenue and $803K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 68% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 13 qualified donees totalling $765K in 2024, the largest being $150K to Daily Bread Food Bank. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1.9M in 2020 to $118K in 2024.
In its own words
The charity identified researched and pursued charitable initiatives in alignment with charitable objectives resulting in charitable donations to qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $118K | $803K | — | — | $765K | $2.2M |
| 2023 | $130K | $709K | — | — | $670K | $2.9M |
| 2022 | $489K | $1.9M | — | — | $1.8M | $3.5M |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.5M | — | — | $1.4M | $4.8M |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.7M | $5.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $765K to 13 qualified donees:
- Daily Bread Food Bank$150K
- Habitat for Humanity Greater Toronto Area$100K
- Covenant House Toronto$100K
- Pathways to Education Canada/Passeport pour ma réussite Canada$75K
- Hope Air$50K
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$50K
- Evangel Hall Mission$50K
- The Yonge Street Mission$50K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$50K
- The Royal Ontario Museum Foundation$25K
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$25K
- The Toronto Symphony$25K
- Willowdale Rotary Club Community Service Foundation$15K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Whitmer Trudel Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 820840965RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.