The Royal Canadian Legion Ontario Provincial Command Branches and Ladies' Auxiliaries Charitable Foundation
Public foundation · Aurora, Ontario · BN 850781618RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,328,730) as filed with the CRA.
The Royal Canadian Legion Ontario Provincial Command Branches and Ladies' Auxiliaries Charitable Foundation is a public foundation based in Aurora, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $2.3M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations, 18% from other charities. In 2024, 32 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $186K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 60 qualified donees totalling $607K in 2024, the largest being $22K to Stratroy Middlesex General Hospital Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 20 names.
In its own words
We assist with the purchase of medical equipment and medical research through grants to hospitals long term care facilities and specialized health organization. We support community services through grants t nursing homes hospices and emergency services. We provide comfort and entertainment to the veterans residing at sunnybrook health sciences centre in toronto ontario. We purchase and give out apartment kits (bedding towels dishes cookware etc.) to veterans that were previosly homeless and are now getting a room or apartment we partner with local colleges to provide dental care to hom…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $1.3M | $488K | — | $607K | $13.6M |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.3M | $360K | — | $587K | $12.7M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $264K | — | $450K | $12.2M |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $816K | $284K | — | $369K | $12.2M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $397K | — | $450K | $11.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $607K to 60 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Stratroy Middlesex General Hospital Foundation$22K
- Hornepayne Community Hospital$21K
- North Shore Health Network Foundation$20K
- West Park Healthcare Centre Foundation$20K
- Wingham and District Hospital Foundation (1986)$18K
- Groves Memorial Community Hospital Foundation$17K
- The Heart of Hastings Hospice$16K
- Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation$15K
- Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation$15K
- William Osler Health System Foundation$15K
- DeafBlind Ontario Foundation$15K
- Kemptville and District Hospital Foundation$14K
- The Belleville General Hospital Foundation Incorporated$14K
- Almonte General Hospital Foundation$14K
- South Muskoka Hospital Foundation$13K
- Bingham Memorial Hospital$12K
- South Huron Hospital Foundation$12K
- University Hospitals Kingston Foundation$11K
- University Hospitals Kingston Foundation$11K
- Temiskaming Hospital Foundation$11K
- ST. Joseph's Villa Foundation (ST. Joseph's Villa)$11K
- Centre Hastings Fire Department (station 1)$10K
- William Osler Health System Foundation$10K
- Better Living Charitable Foundation$10K
- Anson General Hospital$10K
Received $186K from 32 charities:
- Ajax Pickering Hospital Foundation$50K
- Frog's Breath Foundation$37K
- The Royal Canadian Legion MacDonald Branch 183 (Ontario) Branch Poppy Fund$15K
- Royal Canadian Legion Branch # 560 Kingston Poppy Trust Fund$15K
- R C L Last Post (ontario #410) Branch-Poppy Trust Fund$10K
- The Royal Canadian Legion Dunsdon Branch #461 Poppy Fund$7,000
- Royal Canadian Legion Ont No 171 Branch Poppy Fund$6,500
- Royal Canadian Legion Branch #498 - Poppy Fund$6,100
- Royal Canadian Legion Kanata (ontario No 638) Branch Poppy Fund$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,540
- The Royal Canadian Legion Riverside Branch No. 255 (Ontario) Poppy Fund$3,000
- The Royal Canadian Legion Riverside Branch No. 255 (Ontario) Poppy Fund$3,000
- The Royal Canadian Legion Riverside Branch No. 255 (Ontario) Poppy Fund$3,000
- The Royal Canadian Legion Branch No 70 Poppy Fund$2,000
- The Royal Canadian Legion Dunsdon Branch #461 Poppy Fund$2,000
- The Royal Canadian Legion Dunsdon Branch #461 Poppy Fund$2,000
- The Royal Canadian Legion Dunsdon Branch #461 Poppy Fund$2,000
- The Royal Canadian Legion Riverside Branch No. 255 (Ontario) Poppy Fund$2,000
- The Royal Canadian Legion Riverside Branch No. 255 (Ontario) Poppy Fund$2,000
- The Royal Canadian Legion Riverside Branch No. 255 (Ontario) Poppy Fund$2,000
- Royal Canadian Legion Branch 218 Poppy Fund$1,500
- The Royal Canadian Legion Thorold (Ontario No. 017) Branch Poppy Fund$1,000
- Royal Canadian Legion R E Pooley Branch 167 Poppy Fund$1,000
- The Royal Canadian Legion Dunsdon Branch #461 Poppy Fund$1,000
- The Royal Canadian Legion Preston (ont. No. 126) Branch Poppy Fund$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$152K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Marg Emery (sub president); Don Young (sub imm. past president); Hailey Gobin (coordinator); Doreen Chester (sub district a); Patricia Gander (district b); Jon Corbell (dictrict c); Jeff Paulin (disrict d); Shawn McKinlay (disrict e); Greg Kobold (sub district f); George Wood (district g); John Lewis (district h); Marianne Sowinski (sub district k); Diane Condon (bursary chair); Derek Moore (sub prov. president); Lynn McClellan (sub 1st. vp); Ed Pigeau (treas.); Pamela Sweeny (executive director); Juanita Kemp (asst. executive director); Sharon (ron) Crown (sub la president); Kathey Putman (la 1st vice).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Royal Canadian Legion Ontario Provincial Command Branches and Ladies' Auxiliaries Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 850781618RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.