William Voortman Fund
Private foundation · Waterdown, Ontario · BN 899003727RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2022-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($849,864) as filed with the CRA.
William Voortman Fund is a private foundation based in Waterdown, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, it reported $795K in revenue and $850K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations.
Compared with 2,460 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 20 qualified donees totalling $850K in 2022, the largest being $110K to Shalom Manor Long Term Care. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $7.6M in 2020 to $795K in 2022. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
To receive and maintain a fund and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom to charitable organizations which are also registered charities under the income tax act.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2022
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | $795K | $850K | — | — | $850K | $53 |
| 2021 | $100 | $1,357 | — | — | — | $55K |
| 2020 | $7.6M | $7.6M | — | — | $7.6M | $56K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, June 30, 2022
- Other gifts$795,000
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2022
Granted $850K to 20 qualified donees:
- Shalom Manor Long Term Care$110K
- Hamilton Association for Christian Education Incorp$75K
- Mission Aviation of Canada$50K
- Indwell$50K
- Cambridge Christian School$50K
- Calvin Christian School Society of Hamilton$50K
- West Highland Fellowship Baptist Church$50K
- Calvary Christian Reformed Church of Flamborough$50K
- John Knox Christian School$35K
- Convos$35K
- Bethany Community Church$35K
- Grimsby Life Centre Ministries$35K
- Smithville and District Association for Christian Education Incorporated$35K
- Toronto District Christian High School$35K
- Cairn Christian School$30K
- Focus on the Family (canada) Association$30K
- Thunder Bay Christian School$30K
- James North Baptist$25K
- Teen Challenge Canada Inc.$25K
- Jarvis Community Christian School$15K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2022)
Patricia Hutten (secretary/treas/directo); Bernie Voortman (president/director); John Voortman (director).
As listed on its 2022 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from William Voortman Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 899003727RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.