Trust Under the Will of Douglas Sutherland Coombes
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 862340742RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($88,764) as filed with the CRA.
Trust Under the Will of Douglas Sutherland Coombes is a private foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $141K in revenue and $89K in expenditures.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 29% 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 1 qualified donee totalling $62K in 2024, the largest being $62K to Dalhousie University. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $82K in 2020 to $141K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
The net annual income to be paid to dalhousie university halifax ns to form an award to assist a deserving student or students in the final year of studies in each of the faculties of medicine and law. The said award shall alternate from year to year between men & women and shall be known as 'the d.s. And f.l. Coombes award'
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $141K | $89K | — | — | $62K | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $130K | $89K | — | — | $64K | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $146K | $83K | — | — | $57K | $1.5M |
| 2021 | $142K | $81K | — | — | $54K | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $82K | $76K | — | — | $51K | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $62K to 1 qualified donee:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bank of Nova Scotia Trust CO (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Trust Under the Will of Douglas Sutherland Coombes’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 862340742RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.