Together We Stand Military Families Foundation
Public foundation · North York, Ontario · BN 777820085RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,455,068) as filed with the CRA.
Together We Stand Military Families Foundation is a public foundation based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% from donations, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $219K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 51% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 24 qualified donees totalling $2M in 2024, the largest being $1.9M to Department of National Defence. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.1M in 2020 to $2.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The Foundation collected goods in kind and received cash donations that it provided to qualified donees. The donations were used to support families of Canadian military personnel. The Foundation undertakes several programs which promote and uphold the morale of the Canadian Armed Forces by raising the public's awareness and appreciation for members of the miliary and their families. Additionally the Foundation provides financial assistance to Canadian Armed Forces and Veteran families in need of food security housing childcare and mental health resources.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $2.5M | $128K | $219K | $2M | $449K |
| 2023 | $2.2M | $2M | $159K | $239K | $1.6M | $494K |
| 2022 | $929K | $977K | — | $428K | $498K | $317K |
| 2021 | $999K | $785K | — | $217K | $549K | $366K |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $1M | — | $234K | $776K | $152K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2M to 24 qualified donees:
- Department of National Defence$1.9M
- Parish of ST. Mary-CFB Gagetown$26K
- Kingston Military Family Resource Centre Incorporated/centre de Ressources pour les Familles Militaires de Kingston Inc.$14K
- Petawawa Military Family Resource Centre Incorporated$12K
- Southwestern Ontario Military Family Resource Centre$12K
- Lord Strathcona's Horse (royal Canadians) Regimental Society$8,900
- Parish of ST. Brendan's$7,400
- Shilo Military Family Resource Centre Inc.$5,500
- Parish of Our Lady of Shilo- CFB Shilo$5,500
- Winnipeg Military Family Resource Centre Inc/centre de Ressource des Famille de Winnipeg Inc$3,600
- Edmonton Garrison Military Family Resource Centre Society$3,600
- Mainland BC Military Family Resource Centre Society$3,000
- Halifax & Region Military Family Resource Centre$3,000
- 4 Wing Military Family Resource Centre Society$2,725
- CFB Esquimalt Military Family Resource Centre$2,600
- Trenton Military Family Resource Centre$1,875
- Goose Bay Military Family Resource Centre Inc$1,700
- Central Saskatchewan Military Family Resource Centre Inc.$1,500
- Calgary Military Family Resource Centre/centre de Ressource S pour les Familles des Militaires$1,500
- Parish of Our Lady of Sacred Heart-CFB Comox$1,000
- Centre de Ressources pour les Familles des Militaires de la Région de Montréal/Military Family Resource Centre Montreal region$1,000
- 14 Wing Greenwood Military Family Resource Centre$1,000
- The Toronto Scottish Regiment Foundation$850
- CFB Suffield Military Family Resource Centre Society$500
Received $219K from 13 charities:
- Rose Foundation$100K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$40K
- The Krawczyk Family Foundation$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$20K
- The Minett Foundation$18K
- Smith Family Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,600
- Canadahelps Canadon$835
- United Way of Calgary and Area$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$120
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$90
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$50
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$26
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Richard Ekstein (director); Stephanie Shapiro (director); Sean McConnell (director); Rick Seymour (director); Alain Parent (director); Al Meinzinger (director); John Capobianco (director); Howie Kroon (director); Duncan Munn (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Together We Stand Military Families Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 777820085RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.