WDMH Foundation
Public foundation · Winchester, Ontario · BN 892824368RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,796,238) as filed with the CRA.
WDMH Foundation is a public foundation based in Winchester, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $6.9M in revenue and $5.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 20% from donations, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $283K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 40% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 80% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $4.8M in 2024, the largest being $3.8M to Rural Healthcare Innovations. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.4M in 2020 to $6.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
To receive and maintain funds in order to make donations in part or in full to winchester district memorial hospital and rural healthcare innovations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.9M | $5.8M | — | $808K | $4.8M | $8.1M |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.8M | — | $278K | $1.1M | $7M |
| 2022 | $3.2M | $2.1M | $320K | $290K | $1.5M | $7.2M |
| 2021 | $4.6M | $941K | $233K | $375K | $333K | $6.1M |
| 2020 | $2.4M | $1.8M | — | $244K | $1.3M | $2.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4.8M to 3 qualified donees:
Received $283K from 16 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$84K
- Canadahelps Canadon$84K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$27K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$19K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$16K
- The Ottawa Hospital Foundation/la Fondation de l'Hopital d'Ottawa$13K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$5,480
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,824
- The Calgary Foundation$3,012
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,366
- Winchester Baptist Church$560
- Christ Church United Pastoral Charge$500
- Osgoode Presbyterian Church$400
- Christian Stewardship Services$196
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$466K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Louise Arsenault (auxiliary co-president); Charles Boland (wdmh ceo); Wayne Burns (director); Elliott Trisha (chair); Connie Lebrun (director); William Smirle (past chair rhi); Judy Tessier (director); Josephine Van Herpt (director); Douglas Robinson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from WDMH Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892824368RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.