Royal Canadian Legion Ont No 322 Branch Poppy Fund
Charitable organization · Ajax, Ontario · BN 887443794RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($74,867) as filed with the CRA.
Royal Canadian Legion Ont No 322 Branch Poppy Fund is a charitable organization based in Ajax, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $53K in revenue and $75K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $691.
Compared with 2,855 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers.
It reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $45K in 2024, the largest being $15K to RCL Ontario Command 'operation Service Dogs'. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
1. Annual poppy campaign funds are used to support veterans and other dependents in need 2. Educational assistance is provided through bursaries and award re youth education at schools 3. We use the funds for homeless veterans programs service dogs transitioning veterans back after deployment 4. We have approximately 30 volunteers that help us make our poppy campaign a success poppy tagging delivering boxes to local stores restaurants. All monies is counted rolled banked. I would say 500 hours is put in by volunteers running this program yearly
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $53K | $75K | $32K | — | $42K | $42K |
| 2023 | $57K | $61K | $41K | — | $20K | $64K |
| 2022 | $70K | $41K | $28K | — | $12K | $68K |
| 2021 | $56K | $67K | $43K | — | $22K | $62K |
| 2020 | $66K | $50K | $11K | — | $6,500 | $70K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $45K to 6 qualified donees:
- RCL Ontario Command 'operation Service Dogs'$15K
- District 'F' Hospital Fund$10K
- RCL Ontario Provincial Command 'sunnybrook Hospital'$10K
- Cample Maple Leaf$5,000
- Warriors Adventure$3,000
- RCL Ontario Provincial Command 'leave the Streets Behind'$2,000
Received $691 from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Edmond Galant (poppy chair); Mike Lescombe (service officier); Patricia Milne (co-poppy chair); Bruce Sharpe (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Royal Canadian Legion Ont No 322 Branch Poppy Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887443794RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.