Campfire Circle Autour du Feu
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 131116022RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($18,720,292) as filed with the CRA.
Campfire Circle Autour du Feu is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $17.5M in revenue and $18.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 50% from donations, 23% from other charities. In 2024, 148 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4.2M.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 10% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 76% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $200,000–249,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 95 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Since 1983 Campfire Circle has brought healing through happiness to kids with cancer or serious illness and their families. Through our in-hospital community and overnight camp programs we create opportunities for children to build friendships and social skills develop self-confidence and resiliency and improve their overall well-being. By providing play-based experiences we empower kids to take back their childhood regardless of their medical diagnosis. Thanks to the generosity of our donors and volunteers 2024 was a year of transformative growth for Campfire Circle with 5 000 uniq…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $17.5M | $18.7M | $13.3M | $3.4M | — | $12.1M |
| 2023 | $15.3M | $18M | $12.3M | $3.4M | — | $53.7M |
| 2022 | $13.5M | $15.5M | $10M | $3.1M | — | $14.8M |
| 2021 | $13.5M | $11.6M | $7.6M | $2.4M | — | $17.4M |
| 2020 | $13.4M | $13M | $7.3M | $2.6M | — | $16.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4.2M from 148 charities:
- Aqueduct Foundation$1.2M
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$281K
- The Angel Gabriel Foundation$250K
- La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso$188K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$182K
- The Marion Armstrong Charitable Foundation$105K
- The Annual Foundation$100K
- The Lillian Meighen and Don Wright Foundation$100K
- Longo Family Foundation$75K
- The Bedolfe Foundation$65K
- The Kavelman-Fonn Foundation$61K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- SGNC Foundation$50K
- David Foster Foundation$50K
- Robert Kerr Foundation$50K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$50K
- The Mitchell and Kathryn Baran Family Foundation$50K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$50K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$50K
- The Garron Foundation$50K
- Loch Tay Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$43K
- The Goldberg Family Foundation$36K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions95
- Total compensation, all staff$9.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jennifer Grossklaus (board chair); Judy Van Clieaf (director); Lyndsay Hatlelid (director); Sarah Alexander (director); Jason Goldlist (director); Sabaa Quao (director); Melinda Rogers-Hixon (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Campfire Circle Autour du Feu’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131116022RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.