(a.c.c.e.s.) Accessible Community Counselling and Employment Services
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 136747276RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($34,567,471) as filed with the CRA.
(a.c.c.e.s.) Accessible Community Counselling and Employment Services is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $34.7M in revenue and $34.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $245K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 41% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 276 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The organization provides employment services across the greater toronto area to individuals who are facing barriers to integrating into the labour market. Services include: employment preparation and job placement support for newcomers people on social assistance and individuals facing barriers to finding employment; a series of sector specific bridge training programs for internationally trained individuals mentoring and enhanced language training for newcomers
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $34.7M | $34.6M | $30.1M | $216K | — | $2.4M |
| 2023 | $29.5M | $29.4M | $25.6M | $169K | — | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $26.5M | $26.5M | $23.3M | — | — | $2.2M |
| 2021 | $25.4M | $25.3M | $22.3M | — | — | $2.2M |
| 2020 | $24.4M | $24.3M | $21.4M | — | — | $2.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $245K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9996 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions276
- Total compensation, all staff$21.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tolu Ajise (treasurer); Titi Akinsanmi (director); Brian Bachand (chair); Raly Chakarova (director); Sharon Connolly (director); Enrique Cuyegkeng (director); Lucille D'Souza (secretary); Annayah Jean Fernandez Rivera (director); Miguel Lopez (director); Alan NG (director); Elliot Pobjoy (director); Andrea Robertson (vice chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from (a.c.c.e.s.) Accessible Community Counselling and Employment Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 136747276RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.