Child Development Institute
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119292795RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($22,800,574) as filed with the CRA.
Child Development Institute is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $22.8M in revenue and $22.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 67% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $558K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 13% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 223 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
Cdi is a multi-service charitable organization that offers early years and childcare services mental health and counselling services and programs that address gender-based violence. Unified under one agency cdi's diverse programming focuses on improving the mental health and well-being of children and youth ages 0 to 18. Cdi's programs and services are guided by a strengths-based approach providing child-centric and family- focused programming to ensure that everyone receives the tailored support and tools they need to build life-long skills positive mental health and resilience. Prog…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $22.8M | $22.8M | $18.7M | $437K | — | $12.3M |
| 2023 | $20.7M | $20.1M | $16.5M | $290K | — | $12.2M |
| 2022 | $24.4M | $20.1M | $19.2M | $55K | — | $11.6M |
| 2021 | $19.7M | $19.9M | $19.1M | $57K | — | $999K |
| 2020 | $21.8M | $21.8M | $20.9M | $39K | — | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $558K from 22 charities:
- United Way of Greater Toronto$298K
- Gordon & Ruth Gooder Charitable Foundation$150K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$31K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$10K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$10K
- Temerty Foundation$10K
- The Mariano Elia Foundation$8,000
- The Toronto Star Children's Charities$7,290
- Toronto Foundation$6,906
- The Toronto Star Children's Charities$6,070
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,861
- Plusoneplusone Canada$4,861
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,000
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$2,000
- Bealight Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,000
- Isberg Charitable Trust$1,000
- Troop Impact Foundation$900
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$678
- Troop Impact Foundation$590
- Troop Impact Foundation$590
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions223
- Total compensation, all staff$17.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Wendy Miller (board chair); Sharif Mahdy (vice chair); Brina Ludwig Prout (director); Dan Fiala (director); Dan Thompson (director); Dana Dodge (director); Frank Giordano (director); Jessica Lue (director); Maria Belfon (director); Pakizah Kozak (director); Susan Eagleson (director); Susan Paterson (director); Tracey Chinman (director); Maryam Ebrahimpour (director); Kate Banting (director); Rajbir Bindar (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Child Development Institute’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119292795RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.