Centre for Opportunities Respect & Empowerment
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118871177RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,500,544) as filed with the CRA.
Centre for Opportunities Respect & Empowerment 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 82% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $144K.
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 76% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 20 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Day programming for adults who face challenges due to developmental disabilities and mental health issues
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.5M | $1.4M | — | — | $529K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.4M | — | — | $498K |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.4M | — | — | $465K |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.5M | — | — | $458K |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.5M | — | — | $440K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $144K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions20
- Total compensation, all staff$979K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nicholas Detmer (treasurer); Flora Do (president); Monmi Goswami (board director); Matthew McTavish (board director); Jane Stewart (secretary); Janet Stevenson (board director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Centre for Opportunities Respect & Empowerment’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118871177RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.