Lupus Ontario
Charitable organization · Markham, Ontario · BN 883331472RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($472,081) as filed with the CRA.
Lupus Ontario is a charitable organization based in Markham, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $706K in revenue and $472K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $59K.
Compared with 1,130 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 5% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 82% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $17K in 2024, the largest being $7,000 to ST. Joseph's Health Care-Rhuematology Centre.
In its own words
Lupus ontario (lo) raises money to provide a means for education support public awareness and research for those living with lupus. Lo assists in funding lupus clinics in six rheumatic disease units. Lo funds the geoff carr fellowship which enables rheumatology student an extra year of study in ontario. Lo publishes a quarterly newsletter to its 1 000 members.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $706K | $472K | $74K | $130K | $17K | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $506K | $459K | $67K | $120K | $44K | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $269K | $415K | $52K | $91K | $24K | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $583K | $284K | $133K | $40K | $87K | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $836K | $285K | $81K | $90K | $81K | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $17K to 6 qualified donees:
- ST. Joseph's Health Care-Rhuematology Centre$7,000
- Sinai Health Foundation$2,000
- Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation$2,000
- The Hospital for Sick Children$2,000
- Sickkids Charitable Giving Fund$2,000
- The Ottawa Hospital Foundation/la Fondation de l'Hopital d'Ottawa$1,797
Received $59K from 12 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$14K
- Canadahelps Canadon$14K
- Foundation for Human Development$7,500
- York Catholic District School Board$5,121
- Legacy Plus Foundation Canada$5,000
- LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES (London)$5,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$4,615
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,654
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,186
- Christian Stewardship Services$100
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$13
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$204K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lupus Ontario’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 883331472RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.