Ronald McDonald House South Central Ontario
Charitable organization · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 132779836RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,063,882) as filed with the CRA.
Ronald McDonald House South Central Ontario is a charitable organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $6M in revenue and $4.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 36 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.1M.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 83% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.8M in 2020 to $6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Provide short-term accommodation to families during treatment of their critically ill children being treated at nearby hospitals.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6M | $4.1M | $2.9M | $704K | — | $9M |
| 2023 | $5.1M | $3.6M | $2.6M | $603K | — | $7M |
| 2022 | $3.7M | $3.3M | $2.3M | $509K | — | $5.1M |
| 2021 | $4.1M | $3.2M | $2M | $635K | — | $4.7M |
| 2020 | $3.8M | $3M | $1.9M | $575K | — | $3.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.1M from 36 charities:
- Ronald McDonald House Canada / Maison Ronald McDonald Canada$1.5M
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$98K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$75K
- Canadahelps Canadon$73K
- Canadahelps Canadon$73K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$70K
- Boxrun Charitable Foundation$32K
- BenefAction Foundation$30K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$20K
- Ryan Saturno Patient Amenities Fund$15K
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$15K
- Foundation for Human Development$13K
- Aqueduct Foundation$11K
- Sony Canada Charitable Foundation$6,471
- Hamilton Deliverance Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic$6,000
- Sydney Wood Purple Butterfly of Hope Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,000
- The David Gregory MacKinnon Memorial Foundation$5,000
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$4,402
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,110
- Hamilton Community Foundation$2,000
- Columbia International Scholarship Endowment Fund$2,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$1,000
- The Roger and Edith Davis Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$1.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Millen (director); MaryAnne Drummond (vice president); Michael Kemp (past president); Ryan Sgro (director); Gillian White (treasurer); Paul Matteis (president); Stephen Tanner (director); Bruce Squires (director); Val Jedras (director); Kathie Gilmour (director); Julie Dell'Aniello (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ronald McDonald House South Central Ontario’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132779836RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.