Dakshana Canada
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 823439443RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,365,942) as filed with the CRA.
Dakshana Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 $2.7M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from donations. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5,035.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 95% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Providing intellectually gifted but economically and socially underprivileged rural and semi-urban students in india financial/education asistance to prepare the students for the join entrance examinations ) jee)
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $3.4M | $3.3M | — | — | $5.6M |
| 2023 | $3.9M | $1.3M | $1.2M | — | — | $6.2M |
| 2022 | $416K | $155K | $125K | — | — | $3.6M |
| 2021 | $259K | $29K | $27K | $1,778 | — | $3.3M |
| 2020 | $2.3M | $1.1M | $1.1M | $1,366 | — | $3.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $5,035 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mohnish Pabrai (mp); Tim McElvaine (director); Francis Chou (director); Sanjeev Parsad (director); Monsoon Pabrai (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Dakshana Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 823439443RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.