Canadian Friends Service Committee
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 132146549RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($743,253) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Friends Service Committee is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $944K in revenue and $743K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 28% from donations, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 35 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $196K.
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 26% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $10K in 2024, the largest being $7,000 to Toronto Monthly Meeting. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $209K in 2020 to $944K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Quaker work is a timeless because of our values. Everything we do a cfsc is an expression of peace integrity equality simplicity and respect for all creation central to our work are the relationships of trust and respect that we build seeking always to engage and bring people together. What one of our partners calls cfsc's 'measured and disciplined approach' has contributed to big things. From supporting those affected by war to winning improved recognition for the human rights of all we've been part of major positive changes since our founding in 1931. Presently cfsc is off…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $944K | $743K | $548K | — | $10K | $4.3M |
| 2023 | $56K | $732K | $541K | — | $12K | $4.1M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $681K | $486K | — | $13K | $4.7M |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $546K | $378K | — | $14K | $4.3M |
| 2020 | $209K | $590K | $415K | — | $15K | $3.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $10K to 6 qualified donees:
Received $196K from 35 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$57K
- Canada Gives$41K
- Oakville Community Foundation$29K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- Toronto Foundation$10K
- Abundance Canada$8,000
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$5,000
- Ottawa Monthly Meeting Religious Society of Friends Quakers$3,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$2,600
- Coldstream Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (quakers)$2,250
- Religious Society of Friends Calgary Monthly Meeting$2,000
- Winnipeg Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends(Quakers)$1,829
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,733
- 1000 Islands Monthly Meeting Society of Friends$1,600
- Hamilton Monthly Meeting Religious Society of Friends$1,600
- Halifax Friends Meeting$1,500
- Interior British Columbia Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends$1,400
- Halifax Friends Meeting$1,225
- Grey Sisters of the Immaculate Conception$1,000
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$1,000
- Vancouver Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)$900
- Religious Society of Friends (quakers) Kitchener Monthly Meeting$900
- Cowichan Valley Monthly Meeting Religious Society of Friends$700
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$560
- Peterborough Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$550K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Daisie Auty (director); Brenda Blom (director); Peter Cross (treasurer); Ro Fife (director); Lillian Henegar (director/rec. clerk); Rob Hughes (director); Lana Robinson (director); Vince Zelazny (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Friends Service Committee’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132146549RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.