Catholic Cross Cultural Services
Publicly funded institution · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 131644171RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($19,829,305) as filed with the CRA.
Catholic Cross Cultural Services is a charitable organization based in Scarborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $19.9M in revenue and $19.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $938K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 89% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 178 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $13M in 2020 to $19.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
1. Settlement services: provides information referral and orientation services to assist immigrants and refugees with understanding participating in and settling into canada. 2. Language instruction: english language classes from basic to advanced levels including free child-minding services and family literacy programming. 3. Employment access services: job search assistance and support; specialized training for internationally trained medical professionals. 4. Refugee sponsorship training program: support sponsors in the private sponsorship of refugees program. 5. Women support servi…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $19.9M | $19.8M | $19.5M | — | — | $889K |
| 2023 | $17M | $16.9M | $16.7M | — | — | $868K |
| 2022 | $14.6M | $14.6M | $14.4M | — | — | $830K |
| 2021 | $13.2M | — | $13M | — | $13.1M | $789K |
| 2020 | $13M | $12.9M | $12.8M | $4,316 | — | $729K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $938K from 5 charities:
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
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions178
- Total compensation, all staff$12M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sean Michael Kennedy (president); Leah Barrett (vice president); Prevain Devendran (secretary); Marisa Zanini (treasurer); Libero Papagni (director); Marc Gerard Doucet (director); Obinna Ifeanyi (director); Patricia Grant (director); Darrel Pinto (director); Joseph Macdonald (director); Reggie Alvares (director); Claudio Ruiz (ex-officio).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Catholic Cross Cultural Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131644171RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.