Covenant House Toronto
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 106990195RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($43,329,060) as filed with the CRA.
Covenant House Toronto is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $46.8M in revenue and $43.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 57% from donations, 16% from government, 9% from other charities. In 2024, 276 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $6.5M.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $300,000–349,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 265 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
As canada's largest agency serving at risk homeless and trafficked youth covenant house toronto changes lives by providing the widest range of services and support to as many as 350 youth a day. A national leader we educate and advocate for change by influencing public policy and delivering prevention and awareness programs more than a place to stay we provide 24/7 crisis shelter and transitional housing on-site and in the community along with comprehensive services including education counseling health care employment assistance job training and aftercare. For more details of o…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $46.8M | $43.3M | $31.8M | $9.4M | — | $51.6M |
| 2023 | $49.1M | $42.2M | $31.1M | $9M | — | $46.9M |
| 2022 | $42.6M | $40M | $29.2M | $9M | — | $39.6M |
| 2021 | $43.6M | $35.3M | $25.2M | $8M | — | $35.9M |
| 2020 | $36.9M | $33M | $23.5M | $7.7M | — | $27.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $6.5M from 276 charities:
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto$555K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$418K
- Canadahelps Canadon$418K
- Canadahelps Canadon$418K
- The Sprott Foundation$350K
- The Slaight Family Foundation$333K
- The Newlands Family Foundation$325K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$310K
- Leslois Shaw Foundation$180K
- Aqueduct Foundation$136K
- BenefAction Foundation$129K
- Longo Family Foundation$125K
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Canada$107K
- The Peter and Shelagh Godsoe Family Foundation$100K
- The Whitmer Trudel Charitable Foundation$100K
- McGraw Family Foundation$100K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$90K
- Lee Tak Wai Foundation$90K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$85K
- Canada Gives$83K
- Toronto Foundation$78K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$75K
- The Di Marco Family Foundation$66K
- The Elpis Foundation$65K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$60K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9992 positions
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9993 positions
- $160,000–199,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions265
- Total compensation, all staff$26.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Armstong (board vice chair); Myron Demkiw (director); Jordan Elzenga (director); Lynn Factor (director); Jeff Fan (director); Cheryl Fullerton (director); Cindy Greenough (director); Amanda Lang (board past chair); Larry Macgirr (director); Himal Mathew (director); Sue-Lynn Noel (director); Susan Paterson (board chair); Mary Rowell (director); Tyler Seaman (director); Mag Stewart (secretary/treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Covenant House Toronto’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106990195RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.