Central Eglinton Childrens' Centre
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 106886088RR0002 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,778,658) as filed with the CRA.
Central Eglinton Childrens' Centre is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $3.6M in revenue and $3.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $96.
Compared with 1,618 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 $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 47 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The Centre provides a secure supportive and trusting environment in which a child can develop and grow at his or her own pace. We offer creative and stimulating activities that encourage social emotional intellectual and physical growth and well-being. The goals of our programme are to nurture independent thought and action self-confidence self-discipline co-operation and social skills. CECC has an anti-bias policy which promotes respect for diversity in colour ethnic origin citizenship creed sex sexual orientation age marital status family status disability or the receipt o…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.6M | $3.8M | $3.7M | $0 | $0 | $901K |
| 2023 | $3.5M | $3.4M | $3.1M | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $3.6M | $3.6M | $3.2M | $0 | $0 | $988K |
| 2021 | $3.5M | $3.5M | $3.3M | $0 | $0 | $914K |
| 2020 | $2.9M | $3M | $2.9M | $0 | $0 | $944K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $96 from 1 charity:
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions47
- Total compensation, all staff$3.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Chelsy Cho (human resources); Matthew Cooper (finance); Scott Deveber (programme); Rijil Kuriakose (treasurer); Yeuk Yu Leong (human resources); Kathryn Lockwood (secretary); Alisson Pinfold (human resources); Kelly Whitmarsh (chair); Sofia Martimianakis (programme); Tracy Singh (privacy officer); Arman Sarfehnia (finance).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Central Eglinton Childrens' Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106886088RR0002), or read how we compute the receipt.