Meagan Bebenek Foundation
Public foundation · Etobicoke, Ontario · BN 774077473RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($642,927) as filed with the CRA.
Meagan Bebenek Foundation is a public foundation based in Etobicoke, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $680K in revenue and $643K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 81% from donations, 19% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $147K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 69% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $100K in 2024, the largest being $100K to The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $305K in 2020 to $680K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
To promote and encourage by fundraising and other means awareness and research regarding paediatric cancer with a special emphasis on paediatric brain tumours their treatment and their cures at the hospital for sick children in toronto and elsewhere; and to conduct such ancillary activities as may be appropriate or neccessary provided such activities are not inconsistent with these objects or these letter patent
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $680K | $643K | $516K | — | $100K | $384K |
| 2023 | $705K | $783K | $660K | — | $100K | $347K |
| 2022 | $636K | $555K | $533K | — | — | $425K |
| 2021 | $384K | $259K | $243K | — | — | $344K |
| 2020 | $305K | $86K | $67K | — | — | $219K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $100K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $147K from 12 charities:
- George and Helen Vari Foundation$100K
- De la Salle College 'oaklands'$17K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$15K
- Aqueduct Foundation$6,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,168
- Mississauga Foundation$2,091
- Temerty Foundation$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,287
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$1,000
- Toronto Foundation$200
- Guildwood Community Presbyterian Church$193
- United Way of Greater Toronto$85
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$5,565
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Denise Bebenek (president & founder); Louie Dipalma (director); Lynda Diprospero (director); Deborah Morshead (director); Michael Smith (director); Huw Thomas (director-treasurer); James Wilson (director-chair); Alicia Markson (director); Matthew Bebenek (director); Elizabeth Becker (secretary to the board of dire).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Meagan Bebenek Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 774077473RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.