The War Amputations of Canada
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 131969628RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($61,226,514) as filed with the CRA.
The War Amputations of Canada is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $48M in revenue and $61.2M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 65% from donations. In 2024, 249 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.4M.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 68% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 87% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 190 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The war amps is committed to improviing the quality of life for canadian amputees. Public support of the key tag service which has returned more than 1.5 million sets of lost keys enables the association to continue to operate its many programs such as the champ program for child amputees the national service bureau for war amputees the national amputee centre for adult amputees and the playsafe child safety program. The association does not receive government funding. L'association des amputés de guerre est déterminée à améliorer la qualité de vie des canadiens amputés. L appui du publ…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $48M | $61.2M | $57.5M | $650K | — | $78.9M |
| 2023 | $50.4M | $45.5M | $41.9M | $562K | — | $89M |
| 2022 | $46M | $36.1M | $32.5M | $643K | — | $82.3M |
| 2021 | $48.9M | $32M | $28.7M | $595K | — | $79.1M |
| 2020 | $44.1M | $32.4M | $28.8M | $587K | — | $59.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.4M from 249 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$397K
- Canadahelps Canadon$397K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$259K
- The Calgary Foundation$242K
- Aqueduct Foundation$199K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$110K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$109K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$66K
- The Victoria Foundation$66K
- BenefAction Foundation$49K
- Canada Gives$41K
- Ypma Family Foundation$35K
- Margaret Rothweiler Charitable Foundation$25K
- Abundance Canada$20K
- Mary and Donald Bittner Foundation$19K
- Gary & Maxie Bluestein Charitable Foundation$19K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$15K
- The Lawrason Foundation$15K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$11K
- Gary & Maxie Bluestein Charitable Foundation$10K
- Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp.$10K
- Walker Wood Foundation$10K
- Orville and Alvera Woolacott Foundation$9,683
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$9,553
- The Noreen and Robert Allen Charitable Trust$9,031
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
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9994 positions
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions190
- Total compensation, all staff$12.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Darlene Quesnel (executive director); Danita Chisholm (executive director); Lorraine Cornelius (chair); David Saunders (coo); Caroline Viau (member); Tim Verney (member); Merrill Loeppky (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The War Amputations of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131969628RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.