Boots on the Ground Peer Support for First Responders
Charitable organization · Angus, Ontario · BN 760279281RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($484,074) as filed with the CRA.
Boots on the Ground Peer Support for First Responders is a charitable organization based in Angus, Ontario, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $420K in revenue and $484K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 56% from donations. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $162K.
Compared with 1,130 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 79% of that peer group.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $200 in 2024, the largest being $200 to The Canadian Mental Health Association. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $122K in 2020 to $420K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The organization's mission is to provide confidential caring and compassionate peer support to first responders across the province of ontario. The organization provides a confidential and anonymous peer support helpline to first responders across (including police fire corrections paramedics nurses dispatchers and military) ontario 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Paws on the ground is a supplemental support program offered by the organization that pairs first responders with dogs that will be fully trained to assist in ptsd recovery and provide emotional support. The organization provid…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $420K | $484K | $274K | $162K | $200 | $271K |
| 2023 | $444K | $331K | $192K | $96K | — | $375K |
| 2022 | $324K | $170K | $75K | $56K | — | $261K |
| 2021 | $246K | $275K | $70K | $178K | $500 | $108K |
| 2020 | $122K | $57K | $38K | $8,228 | — | $138K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $200 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $162K from 19 charities:
- True Patriot Love Foundation$65K
- The John and Kim Morrison Family Foundation$21K
- Rotary Club of Toronto Charitable Foundation$20K
- United Way Niagara$10K
- Lenny's House$10K
- Legacy Plus Foundation Canada$10K
- The Masonic Foundation of Ontario$7,600
- Graham Munro Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The Douglas A. Smith Family Foundation$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,225
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,911
- United Way of Leeds and Grenville$1,300
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$650
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$570
- Irma and Vincenzo Pulla Charitable Foundation$500
- United Way Niagara$265
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$48
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$37
- United Way of Prince Edward Island$26
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Allan Britton (chairman); David McLennan (president); Jill Pollard (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Boots on the Ground Peer Support for First Responders’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 760279281RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.