Warren Y. Soper Charitable Trust
Private foundation · Oakville, Ontario · BN 850886136RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,004,226) as filed with the CRA.
Warren Y. Soper Charitable Trust is a private foundation based in Oakville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $3M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 63% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 11 qualified donees totalling $2.8M in 2024, the largest being $1.5M to Oakville Hospital Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
As per the charity's constituting document the charity has a perpetual capital base and the charity's activities are the donation of its annual income to registered charities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $3M | — | — | $2.8M | $18.6M |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.3M | — | — | $1.1M | $20.2M |
| 2022 | -$829K | $919K | — | — | $698K | $18.2M |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $1.1M | — | — | $820K | $20M |
| 2020 | $2M | $861K | — | — | $620K | $18.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.8M to 11 qualified donees:
- Oakville Hospital Foundation$1.5M
- Pancreatic Cancer Canada / Cancer du Pancreas Canada$300K
- Kidney Cancer Canada Association / Association Canadienne du cancer du rein$200K
- The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation$200K
- Hennick Bridgepoint Foundation$200K
- The Irving Ludmer Foundation$100K
- Dyslexia Canada$100K
- Alzheimer Society of Canada$50K
- We Love You Connie Foundation$25K
- Arthouse for Children and Youth$25K
- Shelter Movers$20K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jane Soper Kennedy (trustee); Edward Claxton (trustee); Fraser Elliott (trustee); Stuart Bruce (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Warren Y. Soper Charitable Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 850886136RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.