Townsend Smith Foundation
Charitable organization · Milton, Ontario · BN 820216281RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($271,022) as filed with the CRA.
Townsend Smith Foundation is a charitable organization based in Milton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $271K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from donations, 23% from government, 46% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $797K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 1% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 90% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $154K in 2020 to $1.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Providing support and education to those interested in hospice care in the last stage of living or bereaved. Projects include free seminars to raise awareness for the need and benefit of hospice palliative care support for caregivers children and will planning group discussions of death through death cafes and honouring those who have passed through candlelight ceremony. Offer research on hospice care and volunteers consistently engage community on hospice care and its needs in north halton. Raising funds and making arrangements to build a hospice in north halton.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $271K | $11K | $167K | — | $2.5M |
| 2023 | $749K | $302K | $25K | $186K | — | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $437K | $143K | $17K | $38K | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $763K | $116K | $21K | $13K | — | $838K |
| 2020 | $154K | $115K | $36K | $9,414 | — | $191K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $797K from 20 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$503K
- Canadahelps Canadon$123K
- Canadahelps Canadon$123K
- ST. John's United Church of Georgetown and Glen Williams$12K
- The Carson Family Charitable Foundation$6,000
- Hornby Pastoral Charge$5,000
- Rotary Club of Milton Charitable Trust$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- North Halton Community Singers$4,050
- Bethel Christian Reformed Church of Acton Ont.$2,123
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,840
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,800
- The W. P. Scott Charitable Foundation$1,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,290
- Ontario Credit Union Foundation$968
- Canada Gives$500
- The Synod of the Diocese of Niagara$400
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$195
- Crosstowne Church—
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$146K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Astrid Lakats (chair); Crystal Kelly (vice chair); Margaret Doma (vice chair); Tamara Amabile (director); Deborah Marshall (director); Ty Shattuck (director); Kristina Tesser (director); Deborah Bernardino (director); Beatrice Sharkey (director); Rick Dilorenzo (director); Michael Spinelli (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Townsend Smith Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 820216281RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.