Tripp/Smith Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 700335698RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,042,352) as filed with the CRA.
Tripp/Smith 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 $1.3M in revenue and $1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 76% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 16 qualified donees totalling $1M in 2024, the largest being $947K to United Way of Greater Toronto. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Raising of funds for the purpose of supporting other worthy charitable organizations
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1M | — | — | $1M | $2.4M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $706K | — | — | $701K | $2.2M |
| 2022 | $761K | $567K | — | — | $561K | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $802K | $661K | — | — | $657K | $1.5M |
| 2020 | -$42K | $308K | — | — | $303K | $1.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$957,301
- Investment income$72,328
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, 2024
Granted $1M to 16 qualified donees:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$947K
- Canadian Maritime Heritage Foundation$25K
- Alpine Canada Alpin$23K
- The Canadian Stage Corporation$10K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$6,331
- The University of Western Ontario$5,000
- Centraide des Régions du Centre$5,000
- Alpine Canada Alpin$4,000
- YWCA Toronto$2,149
- Toronto East Health Network Foundation$2,060
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,000
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$1,000
- MS Canada SP Canada$1,000
- Beach Metro Community News$1,000
- Kids Help Phone / Jeunesse J' Ecoute$500
- Movember Canada$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Eric Tripp (president); Maria Smith (secretary/treasurer); Paul Sabourin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Tripp/Smith Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 700335698RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.