Charity BreakdownCanadian charity filings, itemized

Canadian Unicef Committee

Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 122680572RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website

Your $100, itemizedCanadian Unicef CommitteeFiscal year ended December 31, 2024
Gifts to other charities$71
Fundraising$20
Charitable programs$5
Management & admin$4
TOTAL$100
Registered

Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($88,616,523) as filed with the CRA.

Canadian Unicef Committee 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 $88.5M in revenue and $88.6M in expenditures.

Its funding that year was roughly 48% from donations, 30% from other charities. In 2024, 185 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $28M.

Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 87 permanent full-time positions.

It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $63.1M in 2024, the largest being $63.1M to Unicef. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.

In its own words

The Canadian UNICEF Committee (UNICEF Canada) supports the core work of UNICEF the leading advocate for children's rights active in almost every country in the world. UNICEF helps children survive and thrive from early childhood through adolescence with programs to ensure child health and nutrition safe water and sanitation quality basic education for all boys and girls and the protection of children from violence exploitation and HIV and AIDS. Our work includes the provision and distribution of vaccines against preventable childhood diseases and vitamin and micronutrient supplement…

Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.

The ledger, 2020–2024

YearRevenueSpendingProgramsFundraisingGifts outNet assets
2024$88.5M$88.6M$4.4M$18M$63.1M$1.9M
2023$55.3M$55.4M$4.3M$15.5M$32.6M$2M
2022$67.3M$67.3M$3.8M$16.6M$44.3M$2M
2021$77.7M$77.6M$5.5M$16.3M$53.2M$2M
2020$61.2M$61.1M$3.8M$11.4M$44M$2M

Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.

Money between charities, 2024

Granted $63.1M to 1 qualified donee:

  • Unicef$63.1M

Received $28M from 185 charities:

As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.

What it pays

Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:

  • $350,000 and over1 position
  • $200,000–249,9994 positions
  • $160,000–199,9993 positions
  • $120,000–159,9992 positions
  • Permanent full-time positions87
  • Total compensation, all staff$9M

Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.

Directors & trustees (2024)

Helen Burstyn (director); Anthony Giuffre (director); Monika Federau (director); Heidi Henschel (director); Jamie Loughery (treasurer); James McPhedran (board chair); Katrin Nakashima (vice chair and secretary); Naren Kalyanaraman (director); Sebastien Gittens (director); Jeannine Bakeeff (director); Robin Dhir (director); Diane Del Monte (director); Mabel Wong (director); Sarah Chapman (director); Alienor Armand-Linot (director).

As listed on its 2024 return.

Check the source

Every figure on this page is from Canadian Unicef Committee’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 122680572RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.