Canadian Progress Charitable Foundation
Charitable organization · Brampton, Ontario · BN 118835354RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($181,563) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Progress Charitable Foundation is a charitable organization based in Brampton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $305K in revenue and $182K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4,593.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $100K in 2024, the largest being $100K to Canadian Special Olympics Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $181K in 2020 to $305K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The main focus of the foundation is to support the fundraising efforts of the canadian progress club chapters across canada in fulfilling their mandate of assisting charitable organizations in their communities and to provide financial assistance to support special olympics and like organizations focused on their communities. 1. Support of special olympics on regional and national levels. 2. Facilitate fundraising activities of members clubs 3. Provide funding for a limited number of organizations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $305K | $182K | — | — | $100K | $2.2M |
| 2023 | $156K | $163K | — | — | $73K | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $38K | $115K | — | — | $50K | $2.1M |
| 2021 | $346K | $112K | — | — | $53K | $2.2M |
| 2020 | $181K | $118K | — | — | $50K | $1.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $100K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $4,593 from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$27K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Douglas Baker (secretary-treasurer); Marie Law (past chair); Bruce Lyle (director western region); Glenn Semaniuk (chair); Jason Forrest (director great plains); Sharon Milton (director central region); Dan Lomas (director eastern region).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Progress Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118835354RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.