Save a Child's Heart Foundation
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 882032725RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,286,570) as filed with the CRA.
Save a Child's Heart Foundation is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 52% from donations, 43% from other charities. In 2024, 38 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $531K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 35% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $4.9M in 2020 to $1.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
To improve pediatric cardiac care for children living in developing countries by: providing pediatric heart surgery and follow up care for children in need; providing medical education for doctors and other health professionals from developing countries and from israel; and providing medical equipment to aid children suffering from heart disease. Budget derived from donations provided by patrons foundations and contributors.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $2.3M | $1.8M | $205K | — | $992K |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $2.2M | $1.8M | $108K | — | $1.6M |
| 2022 | — | $2.7M | $2.3M | $237K | — | — |
| 2021 | $7.9M | $6.9M | $6.7M | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $4.9M | $5M | $4.7M | $54K | — | $708K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $531K from 38 charities:
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$158K
- The Blidner Family Foundation$100K
- Gerald Sheff & Shanitha Kachan Family Foundation$50K
- Toronto Foundation$31K
- Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation$25K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$18K
- THE IRA GLUSKIN AND MAXINE GRANOVSKY GLUSKIN CHARITABLE FOUNdation$18K
- Silver Family Charitable Foundation$18K
- The Sonshine Family Foundation$10K
- Bernard & Norton Wolf Family Foundation$10K
- Alexander E Grossman Foundation$10K
- Robert Kerr Foundation$10K
- The Sydney and Florence Cooper Charitable Foundation$10K
- Allan and Susan Fenwick Charitable Foundation$6,800
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,502
- Mauer-Sheiner Foundation$5,000
- The Janice Lewis and Mitchell Cohen Foundation$5,000
- The Arthur and Margaret Weisz Family Foundation$5,000
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$4,775
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$4,600
- The Brown-Nusbaum Family Foundation$3,700
- R-FFLOW Foundation$2,800
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,800
- BAM Foundation$2,000
- The John W.S. Preston Foundation$1,800
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$416K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Heather Crawford (director); Stacey Kline (director); Lisa Ritchie (director); Leslie Giller (director); Zachary Goldstein (director); Lana Pulver (director); Will Goldstein (director); Danny Ritter (director); David Isaacman (director); Karen Diamond (director); Leora Branfield-Day (director); Lauren Hoffman (director); Toby Rose (director); Jennifer Godfrey (director); Alexandra Spinner (treasurer); Robyn Feldberg Katz.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Save a Child's Heart Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 882032725RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.