Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides/fondation des Lions du Canada Chien-Guides
Charitable organization · Oakville, Ontario · BN 130245129RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($10,217,157) as filed with the CRA.
Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides/fondation des Lions du Canada Chien-Guides is a charitable organization based in Oakville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $11.1M in revenue and $10.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 68% from donations, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 81 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 86 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.9M in 2020 to $11.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Operation of a dog guides school providing service dogs to Canadians with visual hearing medical disabilities epilepsy autism and diabetes at no cost. Provide support dog guides to professional agencies at no cost to offer support to individuals in traumatic situations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.1M | $10.2M | $6.6M | $2M | — | $31.2M |
| 2023 | $11.5M | $9.4M | $6.4M | $1.8M | — | $30.3M |
| 2022 | $8.2M | $7.2M | $4.8M | $844K | — | $28.1M |
| 2021 | $6.6M | $2.3M | $834K | $487K | $550K | $22.5M |
| 2020 | $2.9M | $1.9M | $741K | $522K | $250K | $18.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1M from 81 charities:
- The 'G' Foundation$100K
- Rexall Care Network$70K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$61K
- The Marilyn Neaves Charitable Foundation Trust$58K
- Aqueduct Foundation$57K
- Oakville Community Foundation$50K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$45K
- Canadahelps Canadon$38K
- Canadahelps Canadon$38K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$37K
- Wayne and Isabel Fox Family Foundation$35K
- The Foundation of Greater Montreal$35K
- The Rand Alexander Lomas Family Foundation$35K
- Walker Wood Foundation$35K
- Beutel Goodman Charitable Foundation$25K
- Jonathon D. Fischer Foundation$25K
- Oakville Community Foundation$19K
- The Davies Charitable Foundation Inc.$18K
- The Margaret and Colin G. Watson Foundation$17K
- Cidel Foundation$17K
- Hodgson Family Foundation$15K
- Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp.$15K
- BenefAction Foundation$13K
- Labatt Better Together$11K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions86
- Total compensation, all staff$5.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Angela Sharbot (chair); Frances Sawiak (director); Garry Beaudry (director); Richard Simonson (director); Sam Wells (director); Nancy Chiasson (treasurer); Paul Cousins (director); Susan Sangster (director); Brown William (director); Guy Ouellet (director); Bill Bruhm (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides/fondation des Lions du Canada Chien-Guides’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130245129RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.