Belonging Forum
Publicly funded institution · Oakville, Ontario · BN 746004092RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,625,919) as filed with the CRA.
Belonging Forum is a charitable organization based in Oakville, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $5.5M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 60% from donations, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $937K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 7% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $290K in 2024, the largest being $150K to Human Rights Watch Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $662K in 2020 to $5.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
To advance education by providing training programs in the field of social connectedness and social isolation to post-secondary students graduates and young people; - to advance education by providing seminars workshops and conferences related to social connectedness and social isolation for the public; - to advance educaton by conducting research into social connectedness and social isolation and making the results available to the public; and - to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.5M | $2.6M | $1.4M | — | $290K | $4.2M |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $1.4M | $446K | — | $461K | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $904K | $2.2M | $1.3M | — | $294K | $133K |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.2M | $130K | — | $699K | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $662K | $367K | $114K | — | $20K | $992K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $290K to 2 qualified donees:
- Human Rights Watch Canada$150K
- Harvard University$140K
Received $937K from 1 charity:
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
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$512K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kim Samuel (chairman/president); John Moore (treasurer); Patrice Merrin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Belonging Forum’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 746004092RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.