Traquair Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 844409656RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($202,110) as filed with the CRA.
Traquair Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $116K in revenue and $202K 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 57% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 27 qualified donees totalling $184K in 2024, the largest being $10K to The Reading Partnership. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $180K in 2020 to $116K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The traquair family foundation corporate objects are to (a) receive and maintain a fund and to apply all or part of the principal and income to charitable organization and (b) to advance education by providing scholarships bursaries awards and other forms of financial assistance to children and youth with emphasis on underprivileged children and youth. The vision of the traquair family foundation is to improve the quality of life for children and youth by providing education opportunities protecting women and victims of violence improving access to food security and health care and buildi…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $116K | $202K | — | — | $184K | $2.4M |
| 2023 | $361K | $197K | — | — | $177K | $2.2M |
| 2022 | $117K | $139K | — | — | $125K | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $326K | $143K | — | — | $130K | $2.2M |
| 2020 | $180K | $136K | — | — | $126K | $1.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $184K to 27 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Reading Partnership$10K
- Shelter Movers$10K
- Multifaith Housing Initiative$10K
- Mishka Social Services$10K
- Home on the Hill Supportive Housing$10K
- Airdrie P.O.W.E.R.$10K
- Passages Centre for Self-Directed Learning$10K
- The Children's Book Bank$7,500
- Jennifer Ashleigh Children's Charity$7,500
- Housing for Youth in the City of York Corporation$7,500
- Toronto Refugee Community Non-Profit Homes and Services$7,500
- Jessie's The June Callwood Centre for Young Women$7,500
- Eva's Initiatives for Homeless Youth$7,500
- The Peel Learning Foundation$6,000
- Timmins Learning Centre Inc.$5,000
- Kawartha-Haliburton Children's Foundation$5,000
- The Shoebox Project for Shelters$5,000
- York Region Centre for Community Safety$5,000
- Why Not City Missions Brantford$5,000
- Art City in ST. James Town$5,000
- The Baby Depot$5,000
- Arthouse for Children and Youth$5,000
- Youthlink$5,000
- Gakino'amaage: Teach For Canada$5,000
- Aboutface Craniofacial Family Society$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Ellen Traquair (director and president); Hugh Traquair (director and vice president); Brian Traquair (director and treasurer); Janis Traquair (director and secretary); Robert Castro (director); Celina Baines (director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Traquair Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 844409656RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.