The Sashbear Foundation
Charitable organization · Etobicoke, Ontario · BN 823390042RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($546,994) as filed with the CRA.
The Sashbear Foundation is a charitable organization based in Etobicoke, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $542K in revenue and $547K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 49% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $257K.
Compared with 1,130 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 94% of that peer group. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $206K in 2020 to $542K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The sashbear foundation offers family connections a 12 week evidence-based skills educational program for families with a loved one living with emotion dysregulation. The family connections program was offered across canada by volunteer facilitators. The sashbear foundation organizes an annual walk to raise awareness on mental health and remove the stigma surronding it.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $542K | $547K | $323K | $94K | — | $778K |
| 2023 | $576K | $425K | $281K | $80K | — | $781K |
| 2022 | $447K | $279K | $159K | $76K | — | $630K |
| 2021 | $371K | $208K | $125K | $25K | — | $461K |
| 2020 | $206K | $152K | $101K | $16K | — | $290K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $257K from 13 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$87K
- Canadahelps Canadon$87K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$13K
- Abundance Canada$10K
- Abba Missions and Medical Foundation$4,200
- The Philip Smith Foundation$3,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$954
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$700
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$500
- My Charity Fund$500
- Wise Family Foundation$360
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$19
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$35K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lynn Courey (president); Terry Crosby (director); Kathy Hunter (director); Julie Jomphe (director); Christiane Devaud (director); Jill Townsend (director); Chi-Ming Kung (director); Shirley Moumouris (treasurer); Charlene Freake (director); Alice Eastman (chair); Alison Taylor (director); Vanessa Dryer (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Sashbear Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 823390042RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.