Wheaton Family Foundation
Private foundation · Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan · BN 857466627RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($800,859) as filed with the CRA.
Wheaton Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $801K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% 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 81% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 26 qualified donees totalling $784K in 2024, the largest being $250K to Ronald McDonald House Saskatchewan Inc.. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $560K in 2020 to $1.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation will not be engaging in any specific programming or fundraising activities. Instead this foundation is a body that is meant to consolidate the philanthropic actions of the wheaton family. It has the intention to support already registered charities in canada and possibly abroad by monetarily contributing to their charitable activities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $801K | — | — | $784K | $733K |
| 2023 | $140K | $716K | — | — | $712K | $327K |
| 2022 | $629K | $650K | — | — | $646K | $904K |
| 2021 | $493K | $1.3M | — | — | $1.3M | $925K |
| 2020 | $560K | $537K | — | — | $534K | $1.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $784K to 26 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Ronald McDonald House Saskatchewan Inc.$250K
- The Horatio Alger Association of Canada$162K
- Bissell Centre$103K
- University Hospitals Foundation$100K
- The Sarah McLachlan Foundation$30K
- Concentus Citizenship Education Foundation$20K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$15K
- British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation$10K
- Kids With Cancer Society of Northern Alberta$10K
- Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation$10K
- Hope Mission$7,000
- The Canadian National Institute For The Blind$7,000
- ST. Stephen's College$6,500
- Victoria Hospice Society$5,000
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Society of British Columbia$5,000
- Operation Smile Canada Foundation$5,000
- All Nations Hope Network Inc.$5,000
- Thrive Outreach Foundation$5,000
- Nanaimo Volunteer and Information Centre Society$5,000
- The Board of Trustees of the Red Deer Public School District No. 104$5,000
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada$5,000
- Union Gospel Mission$5,000
- William Osler Health System Foundation$3,500
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$2,000
- YMCA of Northern Alberta$1,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
C. Ross Wheaton (director); Marion Laird (director); Ann McClellan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Wheaton Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 857466627RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.