William Birchall Foundation
Private foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 842386310RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($865,140) as filed with the CRA.
William Birchall 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 $3.8M in revenue and $865K in expenditures.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 32% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 23 qualified donees totalling $678K in 2024, the largest being $230K to The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Foundation (Canada). Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $3.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.8M | $865K | — | — | $678K | $14.9M |
| 2023 | $2.2M | $745K | — | — | $576K | $11.9M |
| 2022 | -$1.7M | $1.7M | — | — | $1.5M | $10.5M |
| 2021 | $2.6M | $1.1M | — | — | $899K | $13.9M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $1.1M | — | — | $906K | $12.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $678K to 23 qualified donees:
- The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Foundation (Canada)$230K
- Wilfrid Laurier University$100K
- The Canadian Lyford Cay Foundation$55K
- Royal Oak Community School Inc.$38K
- The Toronto Symphony$25K
- Lupus Canada$25K
- Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation$25K
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada$25K
- Brock University$25K
- Canadian Friends of the Lyford Cay International School$20K
- North York Harvest Food Bank$15K
- De la Salle College 'oaklands'$15K
- The Stop Community Food Centre$10K
- Church of the Redeemer$10K
- Church of the Messiah$10K
- Brampton 9235 Outreach Corp$10K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$10K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$5,000
- The Canadian Lyford Cay Foundation$5,000
- The Canadian Lyford Cay Foundation$5,000
- The Canadian Lyford Cay Foundation$5,000
- New Circles Community Services$5,000
- The Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alexander Birchall (director); C. William D. Birchall (director); Catharina Birchall (director); Charles Birchall (director); Lillian Birchall (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from William Birchall Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 842386310RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.