Abiona Centre for Infant & Early Mental Health
Publicly funded institution · East York, Ontario · BN 119283687RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,937,695) as filed with the CRA.
Abiona Centre for Infant & Early Mental Health is a charitable organization based in East York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $10.9M in revenue and $10.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 61% from government, 6% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 49 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $758K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 29% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 95 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5.1M in 2020 to $10.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Prenatal live-in treatment program transitional housing maternal infant mental health including the kuumba project secondary school and day treatment programs' earlyon and family centre early learning child care centre community information housing and referral services baby and me - a rent subsidy and eviction prevention programs success in employment for adolescent mothers (seam) ujima project - program designed to improve early outcomes for children born to underserviced young parents volunteer program donations/clothing bank
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.9M | $10.9M | $9.6M | $267K | — | $3.3M |
| 2023 | $10.2M | $10M | $9.1M | $248K | — | $3.2M |
| 2022 | $7.8M | $7.3M | $6.6M | $198K | $0 | $2.9M |
| 2021 | $5.9M | $5.3M | $4.7M | $186K | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $5.1M | $4.8M | $4.2M | $161K | — | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $758K from 49 charities:
- Aubrey & Marla Dan Foundation$100K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$79K
- Canadahelps Canadon$72K
- Canadahelps Canadon$72K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$57K
- Capitalize For Kids Foundation$50K
- Leslois Shaw Foundation$50K
- The Prenstin Foundation$33K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$31K
- Robert Kerr Foundation$30K
- Tippet Foundation$25K
- Greater Toronto Apartment Association Charitable Foundation$20K
- Toronto Foundation$16K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$15K
- Baby Love Beginnings$11K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$10K
- Frederick and Douglas Dickson Memorial Foundation$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$10K
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$8,500
- Aqueduct Foundation$7,000
- Kids Up Front Foundation (toronto)$5,442
- The Toronto United Church Council$5,259
- The Harry E Foster Charitable Foundation$5,000
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$4,300
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions95
- Total compensation, all staff$6.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jessica Amey (chair); Alana Buckley (treasurer); Anika Mehta (board director); Jalpa Patel (board director); Elena Simonetta (board director); Beth Dewitt (board director); Edem Akan (secretary); Michael Kuske (board director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Abiona Centre for Infant & Early Mental Health’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119283687RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.