The Lighthouse Program for Grieving Children
Charitable organization · Oakville, Ontario · BN 861059715RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,051,654) as filed with the CRA.
The Lighthouse Program for Grieving Children is a charitable organization based in Oakville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 31% from other charities. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $357K.
Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Peer support for grieving children youth and their families
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $1.1M | — | $76K | — | $3.2M |
| 2023 | $1M | $1M | $706K | $78K | — | $3.2M |
| 2022 | $915K | $1.1M | $977K | $86K | — | $3.2M |
| 2021 | $926K | $878K | $762K | $73K | — | $3.4M |
| 2020 | $981K | $728K | $607K | $85K | — | $3.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $357K from 26 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$91K
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$57K
- Oakville Community Foundation$37K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$35K
- Robert Kerr Foundation$25K
- Beutel Goodman Charitable Foundation$23K
- RBC Foundation$20K
- Aqueduct Foundation$12K
- Kindred Foundation$10K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,454
- Cidel Foundation$4,952
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,823
- United Way of Greater Toronto$4,444
- Mississauga Foundation$3,000
- Nora's Gift Foundation$2,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,250
- WCPD Foundation$1,500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,275
- Maranatha Christian Reformed Church of Bowmanville$1,105
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$1,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$972
- Appleby College$600
- BenefAction Foundation$500
- Flavelle Family Foundation$50
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$702K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Maarten Jansen (director); Michael Zajdman (director); Shawna Dennis (director); Kim Maiatico (director); Huma Saeedi (director); Edward Jones-Stanley (treasurer); Denise Grondin (director); Melesha Kelman (director); John Reidy (director); Carmela Sanders (director); Melissa Gaston (director); David Burbach (director); James Williams (director); Shannon Giannitsopoulou (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Lighthouse Program for Grieving Children’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 861059715RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.