Family & Children's Services of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo Foundation
Public foundation · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 885346817RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,743,370) as filed with the CRA.
Family & Children's Services of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo Foundation is a public foundation based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 88% from donations. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $816K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 35% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Foster and promote public understanding and knowledge of the the children's aid society of the regional municipality of waterloo by publication of information and other lawful activities for the purpose of generally advancing the primary objectives of the children's aid society - which is to work with the community to protect children strengthen and support families and children and develop a caring environment for children. Received maintained and granted funds to the children's aid society of the regional municipality of waterloo to support the meet the special charitable need of the child…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.7M | $183K | $98K | $1.2M | $0 |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.3M | $270K | $102K | $879K | $0 |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.7M | $266K | $144K | $547K | $0 |
| 2021 | $2M | $1.2M | $46K | $145K | $164K | $0 |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1M | $21K | $137K | $954K | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $816K from 19 charities:
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation$420K
- The Fairmount Foundation$100K
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$80K
- Canadahelps Canadon$70K
- Canadahelps Canadon$70K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$26K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$12K
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation$11K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- Abundance Canada$6,000
- The Savvas Chamberlain Family Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,168
- Bloomingdale United Church$500
- ST Paul's Lutheran Church$250
- Renison University College$50
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Benjamin Bach (director); Tara Bedard (director); Rick Bolzon (director); Darren Kelly (director); Matthew Kirby (director); Steven Milijasevic (director); Wolf Seltner (director); Christine Senior (vice-chair); Peter (pete) Travers (director); Amichai (ami) Tsarfati (chair); Tapiwa Ziyenge (director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Family & Children's Services of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 885346817RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.