My Grandfather's Cat
Charitable organization · East Chester, Nova Scotia · BN 760821264RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($93,829) as filed with the CRA.
My Grandfather's Cat is a charitable organization based in East Chester, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $176K in revenue and $94K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 69% from donations, 29% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $187K.
Compared with 414 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $11K in 2022 to $176K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
My Grandfather's Cat provides a service to help seniors and terminally ill people find homes for their pets before they move into retirement homes or pass away.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2022–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $176K | $94K | $61K | $11K | — | $114K |
| 2023 | $49K | $35K | $9,879 | — | — | $31K |
| 2022 | $11K | $3,840 | $1,875 | — | — | $18K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $187K from 13 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$78K
- Canadahelps Canadon$78K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$10K
- Niagara Action for Animals$7,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,952
- The Margaret and Douglas Anderson Family Foundation Limited$3,500
- WCPD Foundation$500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$350
- United Way Niagara$151
- United Way Niagara$151
- United Way of Prince Edward Island$100
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$97
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$51K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Angela Rafuse (director); Philip Choi (chair); Andrea Daly (vice chair); Kayla Hyland (treasurer); Sarah Greening (director); Sarah Squinas (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from My Grandfather's Cat’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 760821264RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.