Starlight Children's Foundation Canada
Charitable organization · Dorval, Quebec · BN 131295693RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($9,869,026) as filed with the CRA.
Starlight Children's Foundation Canada is a charitable organization based in Dorval, Quebec, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $9.9M in revenue and $9.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 46% from donations, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 34 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $558K.
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 39% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 19 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 131 qualified donees totalling $3M in 2024, the largest being $1.3M to Jeunesse au Soleil / Sun Youth organization. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.3M in 2020 to $9.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The Foundation is incorporated under the Canada Not for Profit Corporations act and is a registered charity under the Income Tax Act. The Foundation enhances the lives of critically chronically and seriously ill children and their families through wish granting and other entertainment related activities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.9M | $9.9M | $5.2M | $1.3M | $3.1M | $3.1M |
| 2023 | $10.3M | $10.3M | $5.8M | $1.6M | $2.6M | $3.1M |
| 2022 | $10M | $9.9M | $7.6M | $962K | $1.1M | $3M |
| 2021 | $7.6M | $7.3M | $5.4M | $549K | $1.1M | $2.9M |
| 2020 | $6.3M | $5.2M | $2.8M | $953K | $1.2M | $2.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3M to 131 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Jeunesse au Soleil / Sun Youth organization$1.3M
- Montreal Community Cares$412K
- Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation$70K
- La fondation de l'hôpital de montréal pour enfants/The Montréal Children's Hospital Foundation$37K
- Centre communautaire multi$34K
- The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation$30K
- Papillon Charitable Foundation of Canada$29K
- Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation$28K
- The Children's Hospital Foundation of Manitoba Inc.$26K
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation$25K
- Racine Croisée Solidarité Sawa$24K
- IWK Health$24K
- Shriners Hospitals for Children$22K
- Sainte-Justine UHC Foundation$21K
- On Rock Community Services Inc.$20K
- TBRHSC (Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre)$20K
- The Janeway Children's Hospital Foundation$19K
- McMaster Childrens Hosptial$18K
- Windsor Regional Hospital Foundation$18K
- British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation$18K
- University Hospitals Kingston Foundation$17K
- Children's Health Foundation$17K
- Fondation Hôpital Charles Lemoyne$17K
- Jim Pattison Children's Hospital$16K
- Fondation Santé Trois-Rivières$16K
Received $558K from 34 charities:
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$151K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$100K
- Fondation-Antoine-Turmel /antoine Turmel Foundation$75K
- Joseph Neufeld Family Foundation/ Fondation Familiale Joseph Neufeld$75K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$30K
- Sofina Foundation$30K
- Kids Up Front Foundation (toronto)$21K
- Air Canada Foundation$10K
- The Krstajic Foundation$10K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,251
- The Stephen Kaplan Family Foundation$5,000
- Alice and Murray Maitland Foundation$5,000
- Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa)$3,574
- York Catholic District School Board$3,500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,162
- Toronto Foundation$2,500
- The Peterborough Foundation$2,500
- Northwestern Alberta Foundation$2,500
- Brookfield Partners Foundation$2,500
- The Foundation Office.ca$1,400
- Synergy Collective Society$1,000
- WCPD Foundation$1,000
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$825
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$525
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
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions19
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Patrick Lefrançois (president and secretary); Edward Prorok (treasurer); Phil Caplan (immediate past president); Sheldon Davis (director); Lennie Ryer (director); Michael Singer (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Starlight Children's Foundation Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131295693RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.