Canada-Ukraine Foundation
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 898992151RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($14,861,486) as filed with the CRA.
Canada-Ukraine Foundation is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $12.4M in revenue and $14.9M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 65% from donations, 26% from other charities. In 2024, 99 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $11M.
Compared with 34 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 24 qualified donees totalling $3.4M in 2024, the largest being $1.3M to HelpAge Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.5M in 2020 to $12.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 31 names.
In its own words
Cuf delivers numerous programs aimed at relieving poverty in ukraine promoting health advancing education advancing religion and engaging in other purposes beneficial to the community in canada and ukraine.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $12.4M | $14.9M | $2.2M | $199K | $12M | $16.6M |
| 2023 | $16.8M | $32.2M | $3.1M | $177K | $28.7M | $19.1M |
| 2022 | $60.7M | $28.6M | $5.9M | $97K | $22.4M | $34.5M |
| 2021 | $3.2M | $3.2M | $3M | $41K | — | $2.4M |
| 2020 | $2.5M | $2.6M | $2.5M | — | — | $2.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.4M to 24 qualified donees:
- HelpAge Canada$1.3M
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$1M
- SOS Children's Villages Canada / SOS Villages d'enfants Canada$400K
- Hope Worldwide Canada$150K
- Ukrainian Canadian Social Services (toronto) Inc.$99K
- Amigo Relief Missions LTD.$82K
- Ukrainian Canadian Social Services (edmonton) (u.c.s.s. Edmonton)$65K
- Ukrainian Orthodox Summer Camp (camp Veselka)$40K
- Medical Mercy Canada Society$40K
- Association for New Canadians$38K
- St. Volodymyr Cathedral of Toronto$35K
- In2Action Foundation$32K
- Tryzub Ukrainian Dance Ensemble$25K
- Ukrainian Orthodox Summer Camp (camp Veselka)$21K
- Plast Ukrainian Youth Association of Canada(1978)/association de la Jeunesse Ukrainienne de Canada Plast (1978)$21K
- Ucc - Alberta Provincial Council$18K
- The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem in Canada l'Ordre Militaire et Hospitalier de Saint-Lazare-De-Jerusalem au Canada$18K
- Neufeld Institute Foundation$15K
- The Grant MacEwan University Foundation$12K
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church of ST. Mary Surrey$7,035
- Local Group of Calgary$4,900
- Green Grove Camp$4,900
- Extend-A-Family$3,035
- Pokrova Ukrainian Arts Network$2,500
Received $11M from 99 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$3.4M
- Canadahelps Canadon$3.4M
- Myhal Family Foundation$2M
- Temerty Foundation$599K
- La Fondation Raymond et Beverly Sackler/the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation$210K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$141K
- Airlie Foundation$125K
- The Harry and Betty Billingsley Charitable Foundation$100K
- The Mitchell and Kathryn Baran Family Foundation$100K
- Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation$96K
- Aqueduct Foundation$71K
- Ross Ulmer Family Foundation$60K
- Canada Gives$50K
- Walsh Foundation$50K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$39K
- Abundance Canada$36K
- BenefAction Foundation$28K
- The Stuart and Susan Bird Family Foundation$25K
- The Calgary Foundation$24K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$20K
- Dr. Lou and Mae Lukenda Charitable Foundation$20K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$20K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$18K
- Carolyn Sifton Foundation Incorporated$15K
- The Huculak Foundation$15K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$218K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Victor Hetmanczuk (chairman/past president); Oksana Kuzyshyn (chief operating officer); Bradley Sutherland (cfo and treasurer); Peter Sochan (director); Bohdan Romaniuk (vice president - alta); Andrew Witer (director); Roman Litwinchuk (director); Andrew Robinson (director); Roman Petryshyn (director); Gerald Luciuk (vp saskatchewan); Bohdan Cherniawski (director); Andrew Tarapacky (director); Yaroslav Baran (vp ontario); Leda Lada (director); Linda Dudar (director); Dana Bagan (director); Olesia Luciw-Andryjowycz (corporate secretary); Bohdan Kolos (director); Oleksandr Vasetsky (director); Marco Levytsky (director); Roman Waschuk (director); Lubomyr Markevych (director); Ihor Kruk (director); Ann Semotiuk (director); Tamara Bolotenko (director); Andrij Maleckyj (ucc national represen.); Katherine Smolynec (director); Alla Nedashkivska (director); Tyler Shandro (director); Ivan Franko (ukrainian self reliance); Scott Armstrong (ucc manitoba - rep).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canada-Ukraine Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 898992151RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.