Breakaway Community Services
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 891536344RR0001 · Core Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,953,649) as filed with the CRA.
Breakaway Community Services is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $4M in revenue and $4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $359K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 39 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The purpose of breakaway addiction services is to establish and carry on counselling education and related activities for the rehabilitation and prevention of persons experiencing problems with drugs and alcohol or who are at risk of such problems. Breakaway operates in west toronto and the surrounding area. Programming incorporates service to children and youth aged 13 to 25 years and their families.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4M | $4M | $3.3M | — | — | $153K |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $3.8M | $3.2M | — | — | $122K |
| 2022 | $3.9M | $3.8M | $3.2M | — | — | $85K |
| 2021 | $3.6M | $3.5M | $2.9M | — | — | $27K |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $3.1M | $2.6M | — | — | -$31K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $359K from 16 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$99K
- La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso$50K
- The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation$50K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$43K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$32K
- M.E.H. Foundation$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$16K
- Coleman Leggitt Trust$13K
- The Auxilium Foundation$10K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$7,675
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,321
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$4,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$458
- Troop Impact Foundation$341
- Troop Impact Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions39
- Total compensation, all staff$3.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Salematou Camara (director); Janet Hicks (director); Kelly Holt (director); Nicole Hunter (director); Nicola Lightstone (director); Aadil Mangalji (director); Tracey Methven (director); Brian O'Connor (secretary); Selvalakshmi Tagore (director); Jordann Thirgood (director); Neha Trivedi (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Breakaway Community Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891536344RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.