Weston Family Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 889015194RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($70,966,781) as filed with the CRA.
Weston 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 $65.9M in revenue and $71M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $24.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 66% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 32 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 163 qualified donees totalling $66.2M in 2024, the largest being $8.1M to Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $39.9M in 2020 to $65.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 17 names.
In its own words
The foundation supports the charitable sector by making grants to qualified donees that operate in the areas of education conservation neuroscience microbiome research and scientific research in canada's north. The qualified donees that the foundation funds includes other canadian registered charities and listed universities outside of canada. In addition to its principal commitments the foundation makes a number of director-initiated and executive management-initiated grants each year. Due to its focused grantmaking the foundation does not accept unsolicited applications for grants. In 2…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $65.9M | $71M | — | — | $66.2M | $515.3M |
| 2023 | $62.1M | $66M | — | — | $61.8M | $423.6M |
| 2022 | $57.9M | $49.4M | — | — | $45.7M | $434.2M |
| 2021 | $40.1M | $49.8M | — | — | $46.1M | $390.8M |
| 2020 | $39.9M | $35.8M | — | — | $32.6M | $312.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $66.2M to 163 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$8.1M
- The University of British Columbia$5.5M
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation$3.6M
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$3.3M
- WCS Wildlife Conservation Society Canada$2.9M
- McMaster University$2.9M
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$2.5M
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$2.1M
- Toronto And Region Conservation Foundation$2.1M
- Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada$1.3M
- Ducks Unlimited Canada - Canards Illimites Canada$1.2M
- Universities Canada Universités Canada$1.2M
- University of Guelph$1.1M
- Université Laval$1.1M
- The Canadian Canoe Museum$1M
- University Health Network$924K
- The University of Western Ontario$907K
- The Samaritan's Purse - Canada$880K
- Saskatchewan Stock Growers Foundation INC.$815K
- UHN Foundation$748K
- The Hospital for Sick Children$743K
- Right To Food$730K
- KWANTLEN Polytechnic University$667K
- Centre Intégré Universitaire de Santé et de Services Sociauxdu Centre-Sud-de-L'Île-de-Montréal$663K
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$661K
Received $24 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions32
- Total compensation, all staff$3.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Vaux (director); Camilla Dalglish (director); Wendy Rebanks (director); Gretchen Bauta (director); Hilary Weston (director); Christian Bauta (director); Galen Weston (director); Mark Mitchell (director); Eliza Mitchell (director); Tamara Rebanks (director); Geordie Dalglish (director); Garfield Mitchell (director); Emma Adamo (director); Nicolas Bauta (director); Pilar Bauta (director); Melissa Murdoch (director); Gordon Currie (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Weston Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889015194RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.