Brain Cancer Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 803594985RR0001 · Research
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($519,120) as filed with the CRA.
Brain Cancer Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under research. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $706K in revenue and $519K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from donations, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $99K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 21% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $296K in 2020 to $706K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Brain Cancer Canada is a registered charity whose purpose is to raise funds to support the research needed to advance finding a cure for Brain Cancer. In the absence of a cure the charity must at the very least help find a prevention therapy that will give brain cancer survivors a more optimistic and hopeful prognosis. Many charities retain a significant percentage of funds and donations received for administrative and operational costs (including salaries) and then disbursing the balance to the causes they support/ represent: Brain Matters differs in that it directs 100% of net proceeds…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $706K | $519K | $20K | $141K | $304K | $319K |
| 2023 | $655K | $534K | $15K | $115K | $380K | $133K |
| 2022 | $442K | $478K | $400K | $30K | — | $11K |
| 2021 | $41K | $21K | $15K | — | — | $47K |
| 2020 | $296K | $337K | $73K | $13K | $251K | $27K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $99K from 20 charities:
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$36K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$34K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,184
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$3,715
- Julia Coey Memorial Foundation$3,000
- The Calgary Foundation$1,596
- ATCO Electric Epic$1,050
- United Way of Greater Toronto$994
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$641
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$411
- Centraide Québec Chaudière-Appalaches et Bas-Saint laurent$357
- United Way Haliburton Kawartha Lakes$260
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$176
- United Way of Prince Edward Island$150
- United Way Haliburton Kawartha Lakes$130
- United Way of Calgary and Area$118
- United Way of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.$85
- United Way of Regina$45
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bruno Cunsolo (director); Carlos Pimentel (director); Angela Scalisi-Polizos (director); Ronald Davidzon (director); Stella Kaplatzis (director); Marc Peeters (director); Giancarlo Spataro (director); Yung Hoang (director); Lino Dinis (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Brain Cancer Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 803594985RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.