Walter and Duncan Gordon Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119288140RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,796,060) as filed with the CRA.
Walter and Duncan Gordon Charitable 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 $8M in revenue and $4.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from government. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $2,000.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 41% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $200,000–249,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 23 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 34 qualified donees totalling $972K in 2024, the largest being $150K to Annaumakkaijiit Community Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.6M in 2020 to $8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
1. Canadian North - provide grants to qualified donees and perform direct program activities to support research and education projects (including a Fellowship program) that increase Northern peoples' ability to participate in and help shape public policy and to ensure a broader understanding of policy issues that affect the North and Indigenous peoples. 2. Fresh Water Resources - provide grants to qualified donees and perform direct program activities to support research and public dialogue to aid in the development of innovative public policies in fresh water management. 3. Provide grants …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8M | $4.8M | $3M | — | $972K | $77.4M |
| 2023 | $7.6M | $4.6M | $2.8M | — | $990K | $74.3M |
| 2022 | -$2.6M | $4.2M | $2.4M | — | $841K | $71.3M |
| 2021 | $9.2M | $2.9M | $1.9M | — | $264K | $78.1M |
| 2020 | $4.6M | $3.1M | $2.1M | — | $426K | $71.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $972K to 34 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Annaumakkaijiit Community Foundation$150K
- Annaumakkaijiit Community Foundation$150K
- Ontario Arts Foundation/fondation des Arts de l'Ontario$100K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$100K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$100K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$100K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$100K
- Inuvik Youth Centre Society$30K
- The Walrus Foundation$25K
- Equitas - International Centre for Human Rights Education / Equitas - Centre International d'Education aux Droits Humains$20K
- Just Organizations Serving Humanity Project Inc.$10K
- Confederation Centre of the Arts Foundation Inc.$10K
- IISD Experimental Lakes Area Inc.$10K
- Canadian Council of Provincial and Territorial$6,000
- Youth With A Mission Foundation$6,000
- Niqinik Nuatsivik - Nunavut Food Bank$5,000
- Art Gallery of Ontario$5,000
- Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre$5,000
- Y.w.c.a Agvvik Nunavut$5,000
- First Nations University of Canada Inc.$5,000
- Georgian Bay Forever$5,000
- Dehcho First Nation$5,000
- The University of Manitoba$3,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,500
- Lake Winnipeg Foundation Inc.$2,500
Received $2,000 from 1 charity:
- The Chawkers foundation$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9993 positions
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions23
- Total compensation, all staff$2.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kyra Montagu (director); Briony Glassco (director); Jennifer Rattray (director); Adam Chamberlain (director); Eli Turk (director); Jacques Pinet (treasurer); Sherry Campbell (president & ceo); Sean Finn (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Walter and Duncan Gordon Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119288140RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.