Wellspring Cancer Support Foundation/fondation Wellspring pour les Personnes Atteintes de Cancer
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 892728940RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,455,029) as filed with the CRA.
Wellspring Cancer Support Foundation/fondation Wellspring pour les Personnes Atteintes de Cancer is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.3M in revenue and $4.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 38% from donations, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 49 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $901K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 21 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 17 names.
In its own words
The Foundation operates from two locations - Wellspring Westerkirk House at Sunnybrook and Wellspring Birmingham Gilgan House as well as offering online programs and some programs in local hospitals. The Foundation offers support programs and services for individuals and their families living with cancer. Opportunities for development and self-help skills leading to enhancing quality of life of persons living with cancer. Access to information and education for health care. Main support and services programs include group support lecture series peer support coping skills nutrition pai…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.3M | $4.5M | $3.1M | $1.1M | — | $6.7M |
| 2023 | $5.9M | $4.1M | $2.5M | $1.1M | — | $6.9M |
| 2022 | $3.8M | $3.8M | $2.2M | $881K | — | $5M |
| 2021 | $5.2M | $3.5M | $2M | $882K | — | $5.2M |
| 2020 | $3.1M | $4.1M | $2.4M | $998K | — | $3.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $901K from 49 charities:
- Toronto Foundation$130K
- Aqueduct Foundation$93K
- Oakville Community Foundation$85K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$60K
- Pancreatic Cancer Canada / Cancer du Pancreas Canada$52K
- The Garron Foundation$50K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$45K
- Wayne and Isabel Fox Family Foundation$30K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$30K
- Kindred Foundation$25K
- Longo Family Foundation$25K
- Pancreatic Cancer Canada / Cancer du Pancreas Canada$24K
- Oakville Community Foundation$22K
- Mississauga Foundation$21K
- Audrey S. Hellyer Charitable Foundation$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$19K
- Canadahelps Canadon$19K
- Canadahelps Canadon$19K
- The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation$18K
- The Walmley Foundation$15K
- The Krstajic Foundation$15K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- The Donald F. Hunter Charitable Foundation$10K
- C.M. Odette Philanthropic Foundation$10K
- The Odette Kaye Family Foundation$6,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions21
- Total compensation, all staff$2.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Matt Barasch (board member); John Bernhardt (board member); Janet Boyle (board member); Sharon Campbell (board member); Paul Eldridge (treasurer); Laura Isidean (board member); Stephanie Lamont (board member); Calvin Law (board member); D'Arcy McDonald (board chair); Anne Odette Kay (board member); David Phillips (board member); Mags Shorey (board member); Max Mantha (board member); Sibthain Akbar (board member); Elaine Goulbourne (board member); Cameron Rusaw (board member); Cherry Rose Tan (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Wellspring Cancer Support Foundation/fondation Wellspring pour les Personnes Atteintes de Cancer’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892728940RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.