Ronald McDonald House Charities Atlantic Association
Charitable organization · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 118932490RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,490,228) as filed with the CRA.
Ronald McDonald House Charities Atlantic Association is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $6M in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 29% from donations, 26% from government, 39% from other charities. In 2024, 27 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.2M.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 29% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 16 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $10.3M in 2020 to $6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Ronald McDonald House Charities Atlantic Association's mission is to create find and support programs that directly improve the health and well being of children and their families. The Association keeps the families with sick children together and near the medical care they need through our Ronald McDonald House and Ronald McDonald Family Room programs. Ronald McDonald House is a home-away-from-home for out of town families with sick children receiving vital medical treatment in Halifax. Our warm welcoming and affordable accommodations help ease the heavy financial and emotional burdens pla…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6M | $2.5M | $1.7M | $558K | $44K | $36.5M |
| 2023 | $9.7M | $2.3M | $1.4M | $770K | $34K | $31.8M |
| 2022 | $6.5M | $1.8M | $987K | $668K | $53K | $24.4M |
| 2021 | $7M | $1.6M | $879K | $689K | $23K | $19.8M |
| 2020 | $10.3M | $1.7M | $940K | $717K | $18K | $14M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.2M from 27 charities:
- Ronald McDonald House Canada / Maison Ronald McDonald Canada$1.5M
- The David and Faye Sobey Foundation$200K
- Fred and Edith Greene Foundation$100K
- The Robert Steele Foundation$50K
- Colin and Belle MacDonald Charitable Foundation$50K
- The Windsor Foundation$50K
- John T. McMillan JR. Memorial Foundation Inc.$40K
- Harrison McCain Foundation$40K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$39K
- BenefAction Foundation$35K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$26K
- The Stevens Family Foundation$25K
- Walker Wood Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$18K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$7,500
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$5,000
- Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent$3,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,445
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$2,062
- Grace Health Centre for Children Women and Families$814
- Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia$500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$455
- The Northpine Foundation$385
- Canada Donates Inc.$128
- Canada Gives$100
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
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions16
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrew McCullogh (past chair); Matt Campbell (chair); Mike Bagnall (director); Jessica Mills (director); Ashley Wager (vice chair); Kenton Strachan (treasurer); Stephanie Jones (director); Clarence Bennett (director); Tanya Tynski (director); Amanda Masters (director); Stacy Burgess (director); Abigail Titus (director); Heather Keeler-Hurshman (treasurer); LeeAnn Larocque (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ronald McDonald House Charities Atlantic Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118932490RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.