COMMUNITY LEGAL EDUCATION ONTARIO/Éducation juridique communautaire Ontario
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118870740RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,315,930) as filed with the CRA.
COMMUNITY LEGAL EDUCATION ONTARIO/Éducation juridique communautaire Ontario is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $3.3M in revenue and $3.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 75% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $841.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 1% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 24 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Produce punlic legal materials that are accurate accessible and relevant to low-income and disadvantaged people in ontario; conduct outreach needs assessments legal review and plain language and design editing for those materials. Distributes public legal education material to community agencies other organizations that serve low-income and disadvantaged people.acts as a resource and leader in the area of public legal education
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $3.3M | $297K | — | — | $578K |
| 2023 | $3.1M | $3.1M | $348K | — | — | $527K |
| 2022 | $3.1M | $3.3M | $357K | — | — | $495K |
| 2021 | $3.2M | $3.3M | $3M | — | — | $683K |
| 2020 | $3.2M | $3.4M | $3M | — | — | $755K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $841 from 2 charities:
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
- $80,000–119,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions24
- Total compensation, all staff$2.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paul Evraire (chair); Aiman Flahat (director); Elizabeth Goldberg (director); Prem Lobo (treasurer); John No (director); Rami Shoucri (director); Kylie Stanners (vice chair); Grant Wedge (director); Barbara Wiktorocwicz (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from COMMUNITY LEGAL EDUCATION ONTARIO/Éducation juridique communautaire Ontario’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118870740RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.