Best Buddies of Canada
Charitable organization · North York, Ontario · BN 895300861RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($854,226) as filed with the CRA.
Best Buddies of Canada is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $855K in revenue and $854K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 64% from donations, 7% from government. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $335K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 78% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Best buddies canada is a charitable organization dedicated to enhancing the communities through one-to-one friendships between individuals with intellectual disablities and students. Best buddies establishes chapters at high schools universities and colleges across the country. At each chapter students are matched with individuals with intellectual disabilities who share similar interests.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $855K | $854K | $468K | $238K | — | $10.6M |
| 2023 | $485K | $619K | $395K | $39K | — | $9.3M |
| 2022 | $639K | $714K | $381K | $191K | — | $9.3M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $490K | $325K | $32K | — | $9.5M |
| 2020 | $809K | $560K | $330K | $67K | — | $8.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $335K from 24 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$52K
- Canadahelps Canadon$52K
- The Azrieli Foundation$30K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$25K
- Larry And Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation$25K
- Solcz Family Foundation$21K
- The DiCapo Family Foundation$18K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$16K
- The Krembil Foundation$15K
- James Raymond Cowling Foundation$13K
- The Krembil Foundation$10K
- The Donald K.Jackson Family Foundation$10K
- Surreycares Community Foundation$10K
- The Sarah And David Kaufman Family Foundation$7,699
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$6,910
- The Calgary Foundation$6,000
- Hamilton Community Foundation$5,000
- Arrell Family Foundation$5,000
- State of Kindness Foundation$5,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$972
- United Way of Greater Toronto$500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$150
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$105
- The Chatham Kent Community Foundation$0
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$498K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Martine Becker (co chair); Emily Ben Haim (board member); Joanne Fletcher (co chair); Chris Waterson (board member); Chris Marsh (treasurer); Jacob Coby Weinstock (board member); Rana Florida (board member); Matthew Aaon Deforest (board member); Robert Eckford (board member); Maha Massod (board member); Michael O Sullivan (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Best Buddies of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 895300861RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.