True Patriot Love Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 814646493RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($9,137,051) as filed with the CRA.
True Patriot Love Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $9.1M in revenue and $9.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 43% from donations, 30% from government. In 2024, 59 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.3M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking 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 77% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 24 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 33 qualified donees totalling $2.7M in 2024, the largest being $625K to Support Our Troups. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5.3M in 2020 to $9.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
In 2023-24 true patriot love foundation impacted over 1 000 active service members veterans and their families (and counting) across the country. Thanks to generous donations from individuals corporations foundations and governments true patriot love supported local community programs across the country to provide peer support training arts-based community engagements group based mental health programming for active service members and/or spouses youth and family programs and camp. We also supported capacity building for organizations to deliver on their mandates. Over the last year …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.1M | $9.1M | $3.9M | $1.9M | $2.7M | $3.2M |
| 2023 | $6.7M | $6.7M | $2M | $1.6M | $2.7M | $3.2M |
| 2022 | $5.3M | $5.1M | $1.8M | $1.2M | $1.6M | $3.2M |
| 2021 | — | $146K | $382K | $150K | $45K | $3M |
| 2020 | $5.3M | $3.2M | $892K | — | $1M | $2.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.7M to 33 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Support Our Troups$625K
- Wounded Warriors Canada$366K
- Veterans Transition Network$360K
- Queen's University at Kingston$135K
- The Camp Tanamakoon Charitable Foundation Inc.$119K
- Fondation québécoise des Vétérans/Quebec Veterans Foundation$110K
- Strongest Families Institute$90K
- Humanity First$75K
- The Toronto Writers' Collective$75K
- MOOD DISORDERS SOCIETY OF CANADA La Societe Pour Les Troubles de L'Humeur du Canada$75K
- Small Change Fund$70K
- Boots on the Ground Peer Support for First Responders$65K
- Canadian Adaptive Snowsports$55K
- Mainland BC Military Family Resource Centre Society$52K
- P.E.I. Military Family Resource Centre Inc./Centre des ressources aux familles militaires de l'I.P.E. inc.$40K
- CFB Esquimalt Military Family Resource Centre$40K
- 14 Wing Greenwood Military Family Resource Centre$37K
- Centre de Ressources pour les Familles des Militaires de la Région de Montréal/Military Family Resource Centre Montreal region$30K
- Vancouver Island Society for Adaptive Snowsports$30K
- County Stage Company$29K
- Petawawa Military Family Resource Centre Incorporated$28K
- Mood Disorders Association of Ontario & Toronto$25K
- Carp Ridge Learning Centre$25K
- Pacific Assistance Dogs Society$25K
- The Perley and Rideau Veterans' Health Centre Foundation/La fondation du centre de santé Perley et Rideau pour anciens combattants$20K
Received $2.3M from 59 charities:
- Whistler Blackcomb Foundation Society$368K
- RBC Foundation$275K
- BenefAction Foundation$201K
- Aqueduct Foundation$163K
- WCPD Foundation$151K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$149K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$140K
- The Durland Learning Foundation$100K
- Diamond Foundation$100K
- Cal Wenzel Family Foundation$100K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$78K
- Jonathon D. Fischer Foundation$75K
- Kingsway Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- The Calgary Foundation$31K
- Bayshore Foundation for Empowered Living$25K
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$25K
- Fondation Famille Vachon$25K
- The Glen Nevis Foundation$25K
- The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundation$20K
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$15K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$11K
- The Jon and Laura Hantho Family Foundation$10K
- The Krstajic Foundation$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions24
- Total compensation, all staff$2.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Shaun Francis (board chair); Bryn Weadon (treasurer); Geneviève Bonin (director); Mike Durland (director); Robert Ghiz (director); Philip Grosch (director); France Hébert (director); Matthew Kelleher (director); Louis Vachon (director); Monica Valsangkar-Smyth (director); Karen Adams (director); Luc Cassivi (director); Duncan Sinclair (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from True Patriot Love Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 814646493RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.