Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada
Charitable organization · North York, Ontario · BN 107755837RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,950,001) as filed with the CRA.
Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $10.7M in revenue and $11M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 13% from other charities. In 2024, 157 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.1M.
Compared with 85 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 26% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 80% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 48 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 20 qualified donees totalling $1.7M in 2024, the largest being $484K to Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CHUQ). Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA (MDC) provides direct support to Canadians affected by Neuromuscular disorders that include: offering emotional support for adapting and coping to Canadians living with a neuromuscular disorder or caring for an individual with a neuromuscular disorder navigating and accessing healthcare and community services and financial support providing funding for assistive devices medical equipment and supports as a last resort that are not funded by government sources delivering and facilitating peer support and education through caregiver and family retreats delivering e…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.7M | $11M | $5M | $2.1M | $1.7M | $2.4M |
| 2023 | $10.8M | $11.4M | $7.1M | $2.1M | $1.2M | $2.6M |
| 2022 | $8.3M | $10.2M | $6.4M | $1.8M | $771K | $3.3M |
| 2021 | $7.8M | $7.9M | $4.2M | $1.7M | $816K | $5.2M |
| 2020 | $9.3M | $10.7M | $4.5M | $2.3M | — | $5.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.7M to 20 qualified donees:
- Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec (CHUQ)$484K
- The Hospital for Sick Children$217K
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute Inc./institut de Recherche de l'Hopital pour Enfants de l'Est Inc.$150K
- The Hospital for Sick Children$83K
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$80K
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$80K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$75K
- The University of British Columbia$71K
- University of Ottawa$50K
- 'Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL)'$50K
- 'CSSS CHICOUTIMI Centre De Santé Et De Services Sociaux De$50K
- L'Institut de Recherche du Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre$50K
- York University$45K
- McMaster University$40K
- Université de Montréal$25K
- Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal$25K
- Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi$25K
- University College London$22K
- Sainte-Justine UHC Foundation$20K
- Canadian Institute of Health Research$10K
Received $2.1M from 157 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$182K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$106K
- The Newlands Family Foundation$100K
- Healthpartners Canada$81K
- The Victoria Foundation$81K
- Chamandy Foundation$75K
- Healthpartners Canada$61K
- Fondation de la Famille Lemaire$50K
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$50K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$50K
- Longo Family Foundation$50K
- Burnaby Fire Fighters Charitable Society$43K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$41K
- The Slaight Family Foundation$40K
- The RDJ Fund$40K
- The Windsor Foundation$40K
- Toronto Fire Fighters Charities Inc.$37K
- The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fund$35K
- Township of Langley Professional Firefighter`s Local 4550 Charitable Society$30K
- The Leonard T. Assaly Family Foundation$30K
- MR. and MRS. P.a. Woodward's Foundation$27K
- The Adair Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Adair$25K
- The Birks Family Foundation$25K
- Fondation Charles Cusson$25K
- Oasis Foundation$25K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions48
- Total compensation, all staff$4.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kara Reid (director); David Crawford (past chair); Scott Marks (director); Alfred Breton-Pare (director); Kerry Zado (secretary); Michael Kaye (director); Debra Chiabal (chair); Donna Nixon (past chair); Stefanie Marinich-Lee (director); David Cluff (treasurer); Jodi Warman-Chardon (director); Fanny Chagnon (director); Nicole Cote (vice-chair); Michael Low (director); Lise Poulin (director); Liz Stirling (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107755837RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.