The Yellow Bus Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 854829520RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-02-28. Split of total expenditures ($777,269) as filed with the CRA.
The Yellow Bus Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending February 28, 2024, it reported $776K in revenue and $777K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 83% from donations, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $113K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 40% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 10 qualified donees totalling $635K in 2024, the largest being $125K to Jack.org. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The objective of the yellow bus foundation is to enrich the lives of children in canada living with chronic illness and/or serious medical conditions as well as providing enriching opportunities for disadvantaged youth.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $776K | $777K | — | $89K | $635K | $96K |
| 2023 | $944K | $992K | — | $140K | $804K | $98K |
| 2022 | $886K | $809K | — | $49K | $718K | $145K |
| 2021 | $622K | $624K | — | $35K | $550K | $69K |
| 2020 | $531K | $540K | — | $31K | $467K | $70K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $635K to 10 qualified donees:
- Jack.org$125K
- Power to Be Adventure Therapy Society$125K
- Blake Boultbee Youth Outreach Service$125K
- Jennifer Ashleigh Children's Charity$125K
- Kids Up Front Foundation (toronto)$60K
- Rpdy Foundation$25K
- 13th Round$25K
- Daytrippers Children's Charity$15K
- Breakwater Foundation$5,000
- Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$5,000
Received $113K from 18 charities:
- Aqueduct Foundation$25K
- Canada Gives$25K
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund$15K
- Odette Federer Family Foundation$13K
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,579
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$5,500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,156
- Klass Foundation$2,800
- The BLG Foundation$2,500
- The Quinn Family Future Foundation$2,500
- The Sprott Foundation$2,005
- The John David and Signy Eaton Charitable Foundation$2,000
- The Anthony and Amie Munk Foundation$1,500
- Rand Kildare Charitable Foundation$500
- Toronto Foundation$500
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$500
- The Graham Burton Foundation$200
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Bellamy (director); Mark Kinney (director); Scott Macnicol (treasurer); Sean McCowan (president); Colin Stewart (director); Rupert Hamilton (director); Tim Cormode (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Yellow Bus Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 854829520RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.