Smilezone Foundation
Charitable organization · Oakville, Ontario · BN 825656507RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,071,591) as filed with the CRA.
Smilezone Foundation is a charitable organization based in Oakville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.2M in revenue and $2.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 42% from donations. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $386K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $448K in 2020 to $2.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
The smilezone foundtion's objective is to create build and transform areas (zones) in hospitals private treatment development centres and children's clinics in order to improve the lives of children facing illness disabilities and physical/emotional obstacles-ultimately putting smiles on their faces!
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $1.5M | $75K | — | $977K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $632K | $78K | — | $847K |
| 2022 | $981K | $880K | $484K | $27K | — | $576K |
| 2021 | $467K | $399K | $256K | $75K | — | $476K |
| 2020 | $448K | $447K | $297K | $54K | — | $408K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $386K from 11 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$172K
- The Slaight Family Foundation$75K
- Bulldogs Foundation Inc.$39K
- Aqueduct Foundation$37K
- Ewout and Lynn Heersink Family Foundation$35K
- LJ Pearson Foundation$10K
- The Tawse Family Charitable Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,412
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- Fieldgate Cares Foundation$720
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$53
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$327K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Meaghan Bachly (director); Scott Bachly (chair); David Clanachan (secretary); Kamie Dawick (director); Adam Graves (vice-chair); Randy Lennox (director); Ron Maclean (director); Patrick Morris (director); Brian Richardson (director); Monique Rudder (director); Hayleigh Telesnicki (treasurer); Joan Waechter (director); Rhonda Pardy (director); Adam D'Silva (director); Adam D'Silva (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Smilezone Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 825656507RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.