Connections An Early Years Family Centre Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Windsor, Ontario · BN 108030396RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,451,428) as filed with the CRA.
Connections An Early Years Family Centre Inc. is a charitable organization based in Windsor, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $3.5M in revenue and $3.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 88% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $114K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 75% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 27 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Parent support and resource centre service over 400 families with preschool children ages 0-6 years. Program includes: parent education programs - including a child care program while parents attend single parent support group self-esteem program for children family literacy programs resource library (providing resources for preschool children with speech and language disorders) preschool speech and language initiative infant hearing program blind/low vision program and poverty reduction strategy programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.5M | $3.5M | $3.2M | $28K | — | $706K |
| 2023 | $3.9M | $3.7M | $3.6M | $20K | — | $680K |
| 2022 | $3.5M | $3.5M | $3.4M | $15K | — | $557K |
| 2021 | $3.2M | $2.9M | $2.8M | — | — | $590K |
| 2020 | $2.4M | $2.3M | $2.2M | — | — | $323K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $114K from 9 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$50K
- Solcz Family Foundation$30K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$20K
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$4,000
- Windsor Volunteers For Literacy Foundation$3,800
- Local 444 Canadian Auto Workers Social Justice Fund$2,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,684
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,500
- The May Court Club of Windsor$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions27
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Natalie Beltrano (director); Barb Brown (executive director); Mike Hebert (treasurer); Katrina Holland-Uttley (director); Paula Van Wyk (director); Patti Millar (director); Andrea Catalano (secretary); Kathryn Corby (director); Krista Loughead (director); Bianca Rubino (vice president); Celeste Kurcz (president); Jessica Sartori (director); Marissa Krasowski (director); Anit Maria Jose (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Connections An Early Years Family Centre Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108030396RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.