Madame Vanier Children's Services
Publicly funded institution · London, Ontario · BN 107653321RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,344,042) as filed with the CRA.
Madame Vanier Children's Services is a charitable organization based in London, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $10.5M in revenue and $10.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 85% from government, 11% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $119K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 57% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 91 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Mental health services and support groups
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.5M | $10.3M | $9.6M | — | — | $851K |
| 2023 | $10.2M | $10.3M | $9.3M | — | — | $696K |
| 2022 | $9M | $8.8M | $7.9M | — | $150K | $816K |
| 2021 | $10.5M | $9.7M | $8.9M | — | — | $604K |
| 2020 | $9.5M | $9.5M | $8.7M | — | — | -$216K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $119K from 10 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$56K
- The Edith & Donald Strupat Foundation$30K
- The May Court Club of London$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,070
- The Crochet Club of London$2,100
- Great Lakes Copper Employees Charitable Contributions Organization$1,900
- United Way Elgin Middlesex$976
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$824
- Knights Hospitaller Foundation Inc.$500
- Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Community of London and Vicinity$500
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
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions91
- Total compensation, all staff$6.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paul Levac (secretary); Sally Zandri (chair); Meredith McEwan (co vice chair); Krista Vogt (co-vice chair); Zoe Ritchie (director); Bayly Guslits (director); Greg Lavoie (director); Hilary Di Crescenzo (treasurer); Samrat Raj (director); Jean-Marc Boisvenue (director); Mariana Peres Toledo (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Madame Vanier Children's Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107653321RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.