Canadian Turkish Friendship Community
Publicly funded institution · North York, Ontario · BN 855403234RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,780,884) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Turkish Friendship Community is a charitable organization based in North York, 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $3.9M in revenue and $3.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 3% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 57 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $3.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The organization operates and maintains a school and a community centre to promote turkish canadians social and cultural needs
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.9M | $3.8M | $719K | — | — | $6.6M |
| 2023 | $3.1M | $3M | $2.6M | $18K | — | $6.6M |
| 2022 | $2.3M | $2.2M | $1.9M | — | — | $6.9M |
| 2021 | $2.6M | $2.8M | $1.7M | — | — | $6.8M |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.8M | $1.5M | — | — | $6.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received -$22 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions57
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2020 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Arife Arslan; Fatih Kaya; Ilhami Kara; Ozgur Polat.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Turkish Friendship Community’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 855403234RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.