Children's Aid Foundation Ontario
Public foundation · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 864521240RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,807,343) as filed with the CRA.
Children's Aid Foundation Ontario is a public foundation based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.6M in revenue and $2.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 76% from donations, 13% from other charities. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $643K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 40% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $2.2M in 2024, the largest being $2.2M to The Children's Aid Society of the Region of Peel. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The foundation funds programs and services provided to children under the supervision of the children's aid society of the region of peel. These programs are directed to abuse prevention enrichment and education of children outside the funding of the ministry of children and youth services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $2.8M | $127K | $314K | $2.2M | $348K |
| 2023 | $2.7M | $2.5M | $103K | $235K | $2M | $551K |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $100K | $184K | $1.2M | $424K |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $2M | $99K | $179K | $1.5M | $338K |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $2.6M | $112K | $273K | $2M | $250K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.2M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $643K from 26 charities:
- John Bright Foundation$165K
- RBC Foundation$150K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$85K
- Graham Munro Charitable Foundation$50K
- Mississauga Foundation$38K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$22K
- Canadahelps Canadon$22K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$20K
- Amma Canada$6,000
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Alice and Murray Maitland Foundation$5,000
- The Guelph Community Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,761
- Brampton and Caledon Community Foundation$3,495
- Jays CARE Foundation$1,004
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$610
- The Madan and Raksha M. Bhayana Family Foundation$500
- Streetsville United Church$350
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$234
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
- 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:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$390K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Digby (president); Cliff Silviera (past president); Raymond Lessard (1st vice president); Armando Minicucci (treasurer); Nav Shokar (secretary); Beryl Ford (director); Elaine Moore (director); Paul Bola (director); Kerry Goetano (director); Maryann Kerr (ex-officio).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Children's Aid Foundation Ontario’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 864521240RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.