March of Dimes Canada
Publicly funded institution · North York, Ontario · BN 107883928RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($168,504,598) as filed with the CRA.
March of Dimes Canada is a charitable organization based in North York, 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 $180.9M in revenue and $168.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 83% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 74 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 29% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 80% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 1,354 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $47K in 2024, the largest being $47K to Stroke Recovery Association of British Columbia.
In its own words
MODC’s programs include the following: (a) Community Support Services - Essential services supporting people with disabilities and/or brain injuries to live independently at home and in the community including outreach attendant services supportive housing brain injury services and Northern Medical Clinics. (b) Employment Services - Services supporting people with disabilities to achieve financial security through the pursuit and achievement of their employment goals. Programs include specialized assessment services job skills training placement services and technology support through …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $180.9M | $168.5M | $148.8M | $3.5M | $47K | $37.7M |
| 2023 | $162.6M | $164.8M | $148.1M | $3.1M | $47K | $25.3M |
| 2022 | $158.8M | $157.4M | $142.6M | $2.9M | $115K | $27.5M |
| 2021 | $148.2M | $144.8M | $130.4M | $2.8M | $148K | $26.1M |
| 2020 | $132.5M | $132.5M | $117.3M | $2.7M | $134K | $22.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $47K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $1.3M from 74 charities:
- The Barrett Family Foundation$400K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$282K
- Temerty Foundation$75K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$68K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$50K
- The Walmley Foundation$32K
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- Kelowna General Hospital Foundation$30K
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$25K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$25K
- The Blidner Family Foundation$20K
- Central Okanagan Foundation$15K
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$12K
- Labatt Better Together$11K
- Woco Foundation$10K
- The Frank Fowler Foundation$10K
- The Shawana Foundation$10K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$10K
- River Philip Foundation$10K
- United Way of Stormont Dundas & Glengarry$8,000
- Mississauga Foundation$8,000
- Sarnia Community Foundation$6,835
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions1,354
- Total compensation, all staff$126.8M
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 March of Dimes Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107883928RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.