Ontario Shores Foundation for Mental Health
Public foundation · Whitby, Ontario · BN 835559824RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,921,497) as filed with the CRA.
Ontario Shores Foundation for Mental Health is a public foundation based in Whitby, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $3.7M in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 22% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $967K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 10% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 94% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1M in 2024, the largest being $1M to Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $982K in 2020 to $3.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
The purpose of ontario shores foundation is to raise funds for the strategic priorities of the hospital and its partner organizations. Fundraising revenue supports program innovation research education programs that promote mental health build awareness of mental illness and reduce stigma and the creation of environments that support recovery (building and renewal of facilities and grounds.)
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.7M | $1.9M | — | $701K | $1M | $19.4M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1.3M | — | $552K | $427K | $17.6M |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.3M | — | — | $523K | $17.8M |
| 2021 | $4.3M | $1.3M | — | — | $567K | $17.6M |
| 2020 | $982K | $1.2M | — | $453K | $435K | $14.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $967K from 16 charities:
- The Slaight Family Foundation$540K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$159K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$71K
- Aqueduct Foundation$53K
- The Peterson Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$37K
- The Citrine Foundation of Canada$27K
- Hallmark Giving$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,881
- Tahira & Iltihab Hassan Charitable Trust$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,565
- The Azrieli Foundation$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$193
- United Way of Greater Toronto$145
- Neil Murkar Charitable Foundation—
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
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
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$604K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joseph Blomeley (chair); Joseph Ricciuti (vice-chair); Tracy Clegg (ceo foundation); Karen Adams (director); Marie-Claire Albanese (director); Tracey Dell (director); Svina Dhaliwal (director); Mohamad El Chayah (director); Janet Hoadley-Redgwell (director); Colin O'Regan (director); Judith Plotkin (director); Roxanne Reyes Gill (director); Jacquelynn Tanner (director); Andrew Arifuzzaman (ex-officio director); Amer Burhan (ex-officio director); Karim Mamdani (ex-officio director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ontario Shores Foundation for Mental Health’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 835559824RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.