Culturelink Settlement and Community Services
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 892339979RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,443,840) as filed with the CRA.
Culturelink Settlement and Community Services is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $6.7M in revenue and $6.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 88% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $387K.
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 48% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 47 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Job search workshops community connections mentorship program newcomer settlement program. Canada summer jobs ride to school program
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.7M | $6.4M | $5.7M | — | — | $1.6M |
| 2023 | $6M | $5.9M | $5.3M | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $4.9M | $4.7M | $4.3M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $5.1M | $4.9M | $4.5M | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $5M | $4.9M | $4.5M | — | — | $986K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $387K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions47
- Total compensation, all staff$5.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Arlene Clement (chair); Roxanne Dias (secretary); Sean Pimenta (vice-chair); Sameera Akram (treasurer); Andrew McAlpine (director); Kitty Raman-Costa (director); Prem Arumugam (director); Viji Hariharan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Culturelink Settlement and Community Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892339979RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.