The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 894430792RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,896,205) as filed with the CRA.
The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $108.6M in revenue and $2.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 90% from donations.
Compared with 74 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% 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 96 qualified donees totalling $2.7M in 2024, the largest being $135K to The Theatre Museum Corporation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.9M in 2020 to $108.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Donations in support of activities in the educational arts and medical fields and to other qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $108.6M | $2.9M | — | — | $2.8M | $163.3M |
| 2023 | $3.4M | $2.2M | — | — | $2.1M | $57.6M |
| 2022 | $606K | $2.1M | — | — | $1.9M | $56.3M |
| 2021 | $7.9M | $1.9M | — | — | $1.8M | $57.8M |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $1.9M | — | — | $1.8M | $51.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.7M to 96 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Theatre Museum Corporation$135K
- Shaw Festival Theatre Canada$125K
- Women's College Hospital Foundation$110K
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada$110K
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$100K
- York University$75K
- The University of Western Ontario$75K
- University of Waterloo$75K
- University of Prince Edward Island$75K
- The University of Manitoba$75K
- University of Guelph$75K
- The University of British Columbia$75K
- Trinity College$75K
- Trinity College$75K
- Memorial University of Newfoundland$75K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$75K
- University Health Network$50K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$50K
- Sinai Health Foundation$50K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$50K
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation$50K
- The Canadian Stage Corporation$50K
- The George Hull Centre Foundation$45K
- Pathways to Education Canada/Passeport pour ma réussite Canada$40K
- York University$30K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
William Concoran (director); Nona Macdonald (director/ secretary); Patrick Scace (president); Brenda Radford (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 894430792RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.