Children Believe Fund
Charitable organization · Markham, Ontario · BN 106918543RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($32,867,125) as filed with the CRA.
Children Believe Fund is a charitable organization based in Markham, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $37.7M in revenue and $32.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 60% from donations, 7% from government. In 2024, 107 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.3M.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 126 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Children Believe is a global charity dedicated to removing the barriers to education that steal children’s choices one by one until they have none. For sixty years the organization has brought together brave young dreamers caring supporters and partners and unabashed idealists joined by a common belief that access to education means a lifetime of choices and is the most powerful tool for children to change the world. We currently operate in six countries with programs that focus on five interconnected pathways of change: access to education health and nutrition child protection and partic…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $37.7M | $32.9M | $23.8M | $5.2M | — | $12.4M |
| 2023 | $36M | $38.3M | $27.8M | $6.5M | $29K | $7.6M |
| 2022 | $29.3M | $28.9M | $22.1M | $3.7M | $31K | $9.9M |
| 2021 | $35.5M | $33.6M | $26M | $4.3M | $329K | $9.4M |
| 2020 | $37.5M | $38.3M | $28.5M | $5.2M | $794K | $7.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.3M from 107 charities:
- Health Partners International of Canada$2M
- Trust for the Christian Children's Fund of Canada$51K
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- Harrison-Cooper Foundation$15K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$13K
- Aqueduct Foundation$12K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$11K
- Stephen Smith & Dorothy Woltz Foundation$7,500
- Bernhard Melitz Foundation$6,336
- ST. John's United Church$5,758
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,770
- Link Charity Canada Inc$3,475
- The Fellowship Christian Church (oshawa)$3,408
- Charles E Fipke Foundation$3,388
- Abundance Canada$3,208
- Marc Anthony Venere Foundation$3,034
- Burlington East Presbyterian Church$2,913
- City of God Christian Ministry$2,808
- ST Olave's Church$2,400
- The Calgary Foundation$2,212
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,955
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,865
- Holy Trinity School Educational Network$1,798
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions126
- Total compensation, all staff$8.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gabriel Ollivier (chair); Aklilu Mulat (vice chair); Karen Fonseth-Schlossberg (director of the board); Vafa Akhavan (director of the board); Mary Kosta-Cadas (director of the board); Melissa Sariffodeen (director of the board); Mona Mitchell (director of the board); Anthony Ruffolo (secretary); Mike Ruthard (director of the board); Judith D'Souza Doares (director of the board); Derin Bello (director of the board); Winston Wu (director of the board).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Children Believe Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106918543RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.