Compassion Canada
Charitable organization · London, Ontario · BN 118871516RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($75,039,835) as filed with the CRA.
Compassion Canada is a charitable organization based in London, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $73.8M in revenue and $75M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from donations. In 2024, 444 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2M.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 31% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 119 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Compassion Canada is a leading Christian child development organization whose mission is to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. Our proven child development program provides infants children and youth around the world with the resources and relationships to overcome poverty and develop in every aspect of life: physical cognitive spiritual and social-emotional. Compassion has three core programs that work together to care for children at every stage of development from the womb to the workforce: our Survival program focuses on child and maternal health Child and Youth Development…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $73.8M | $75M | $61.8M | $8.1M | — | $12.7M |
| 2023 | $74.6M | $77.2M | $63.2M | $8.6M | $3,500 | $13.9M |
| 2022 | $74.7M | $74.9M | $62M | $7M | $1,500 | $16.5M |
| 2021 | $75.4M | $71.4M | $60.6M | $6.3M | $1,500 | $16.8M |
| 2020 | $70.5M | $68.8M | $58.1M | $6.3M | $1,500 | $12.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2M from 444 charities:
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$242K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$97K
- Canadahelps Canadon$88K
- Canadahelps Canadon$88K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$85K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$77K
- Koinonia Charitable Trust$55K
- Abundance Canada$53K
- Calvary Baptist Church Oshawa$53K
- The Bridgeworks Hope to the World Foundation$50K
- Adonis Foundation$46K
- Canada Gives$40K
- Resonate Christian Church$40K
- BenefAction Foundation$36K
- Harvest Bible Church Windsor Inc.$35K
- ST. Mathew's Mar Thoma Church Toronto$35K
- Kelowna Trinity Baptist Church$32K
- The Great Commission Foundation$31K
- Little Family Foundation$24K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$20K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$20K
- LakePoint Church$19K
- Gateway Church - London$18K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$18K
- Clearview Community Church$17K
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
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions119
- Total compensation, all staff$10.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Compassion Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118871516RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.