Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada
Charitable organization · North York, Ontario · BN 881291918RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($65,394,450) as filed with the CRA.
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $53.4M in revenue and $65.4M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 54% from donations, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 163 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.8M.
Compared with 85 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 181 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $224K in 2020 to $53.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Make-A-Wish creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. We are on a quest to bring every eligible child's wish to life because a wish is an integral part of a child's treatment journey. Research shows children who have wishes granted can build the physical and emotional strength they need to fight a critical illness.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $53.4M | $65.4M | $47.3M | $15.7M | — | $38.3M |
| 2023 | $42.6M | $49.9M | $33.7M | $13.4M | — | $50.2M |
| 2022 | $23.6M | $28.7M | $15.3M | $11.2M | — | $57.7M |
| 2021 | $31M | $20.1M | $9.8M | $7.7M | — | $63M |
| 2020 | $224K | $353K | $125K | $191K | — | $185K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3.8M from 163 charities:
- Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation$756K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$428K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$344K
- Vancouver Foundation$164K
- Sofina Foundation$141K
- Canadahelps Canadon$118K
- Canadahelps Canadon$118K
- RBC Foundation$100K
- The Di Marco Family Foundation$92K
- Sony Canada Charitable Foundation$83K
- Honda Canada Foundation$78K
- Aqueduct Foundation$67K
- BenefAction Foundation$64K
- Canada Cycles for Kids$62K
- The Calgary Foundation$57K
- London Community Foundation$54K
- The McCain Foundation$50K
- The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fund$50K
- WCPD Foundation$50K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$48K
- The Windsor Foundation$40K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$40K
- The Taylor Family Foundation$35K
- Caron Education Foundation$30K
- The Lecky Foundation$30K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $250,000–299,9993 positions
- $200,000–249,9994 positions
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions181
- Total compensation, all staff$16.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dan Markou (director); Shaun Usmar (chair); Shawn White (director); Alyson Hodson (director); Jason Low (treasurer); Carolina Walls (director); Darren Nantes (vice chair); Sylvain Charbonneau (director); Tyler McGregor (director); Jeanette Wakelin (director); Heather Hodgson-Viden (director); Mark Carpenter (director); April Crane (director); Rex Lee (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 881291918RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.