Churches by the Bluffs Community Services
Charitable organization · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 876622903RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($221,002) as filed with the CRA.
Churches by the Bluffs Community Services is a charitable organization based in Scarborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $255K in revenue and $221K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from donations. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $359K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 91% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $122K in 2020 to $255K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Provides food bank and support services for persons of low income in the east end of toronto.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $255K | $221K | $221K | — | — | $344K |
| 2023 | $232K | $216K | $216K | — | — | $310K |
| 2022 | $201K | $147K | $147K | — | — | $300K |
| 2021 | $251K | $142K | $142K | — | — | $245K |
| 2020 | $122K | $98K | $98K | — | — | $136K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $359K from 16 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$108K
- Canadahelps Canadon$108K
- BenefAction Foundation$50K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$38K
- Fallingbrook Heights Baptist Church$12K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$10K
- ST Nicholas Church Birch Cliff$7,200
- Vancouver Foundation$7,133
- Aqueduct Foundation$6,000
- The Kiwanis Club of Riverdale Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Fallingbrook Presbyterian Church$3,000
- Scarborough Baptist Church$1,200
- ST Paul's United Church$1,048
- Birchcliff Bluffs United Church$905
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$320
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gail Barkic (volunteer ceo); Arlene Moore (secretary); Pauline Glasgow (vice chair); Stewart MC Sween (director); Angela Cluney (chair); Tran NU (director); Daphne Hudson (asst. treasurer); Anne Fulford-Brown (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Churches by the Bluffs Community Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 876622903RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.