Creating Together
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 129476248RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($469,434) as filed with the CRA.
Creating Together is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. 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 $513K in revenue and $469K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from government, 22% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $105K.
Compared with 355 arts institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 57% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 88% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $316K in 2020 to $513K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Creating together is a child and family centre located in parkdale designed to welcome children from 0 to 6 years of age and their families/caregivers to a halthy comfortable and fun environment where the children's social cognitive emotional and physical development is supported.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $513K | $469K | $384K | $28K | — | $118K |
| 2023 | $394K | — | $356K | $29K | — | $240K |
| 2022 | $345K | $317K | $235K | $28K | — | $125K |
| 2021 | $300K | $284K | $206K | $25K | — | $97K |
| 2020 | $316K | $305K | $227K | $25K | — | $81K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $105K from 14 charities:
- Mackenzie Investments Charitable Foundation$26K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$15K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$10K
- Mazon Canada$7,500
- Hodgson Family Foundation$6,000
- Alice and Murray Maitland Foundation$6,000
- Johansen-Larsen Foundation$5,000
- The McColl-Early Foundation$5,000
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$5,000
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$5,000
- The George Lunan Foundation$5,000
- Daily Bread Food Bank$4,672
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,669
- CHUM Charitable Foundation$2,400
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$194K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nithyapriya Thanapandi (director); Visali Eswaran (director); Julia Carr (director); Christina Konecny (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Creating Together’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129476248RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.