Last Post Fund
Publicly funded institution · Montreal, Quebec · BN 119009181RR0002 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,159,628) as filed with the CRA.
Last Post Fund is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $7.2M in revenue and $7.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $111K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 14% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
To assure in so far possible that no war veterans or civilians who meet service eligibility criteria are denied a dignified funeral and burial for lack of funds. To provide grave headstone for war veterans grave that have been unmarked for more than five years. To support commemoration war veteran projects across canada
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.2M | $7.2M | $5.5M | $60K | — | $3.3M |
| 2023 | $6.7M | $6.8M | $5.3M | $40K | — | $3.2M |
| 2022 | $6.7M | $6.9M | $5.4M | $23K | — | $3.4M |
| 2021 | $6.7M | $6.8M | $5.2M | $39K | — | $2.7M |
| 2020 | $8.1M | $7.7M | $5.9M | $74K | — | $2.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $111K from 14 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$39K
- Canadahelps Canadon$39K
- John Patrick Colfer Family Foundation$20K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$6,590
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,947
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,300
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$600
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$500
- ATCO Electric Epic$500
- United Way of Regina$467
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$400
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$254
- United Way of Greater Moncton and Southeastern New Brunswick Region Inc.\centraide de la Region du Grand Moncton et du Sud Est du Nouveau-New Brunswick Inc.$234
- Canada Donates Inc.$41
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,99911 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gino Simeoni (president bc branch); James G. Lynch (vice president est); Kenneth Usher (vice president west); Leo O'Brien (vice president nfld); Robert B. Carter (administrator); Kelly Newstead (administrator); Edouard Pahud (executive director); Paul Blumenstock (treasurer); Derek Sullivan (administrator); Mathew Halpin (administrator); Colin King (administrator); Glenn Miller (administrator); Michael Voith (administrator); Nicolas Marcotte (administrator); April Adams (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Last Post Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119009181RR0002), or read how we compute the receipt.