Daytrippers Children's Charity
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 884896929RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,106,026) as filed with the CRA.
Daytrippers Children's Charity is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $674K in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $241K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 28% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 88% of that peer group.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The primary purpose of the charity is to fund (through galas/donations) and facilitate the organization of trips to recognized educational and/or cultural institutions for children's groups from lower income areas.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $674K | $1.1M | $844K | $145K | — | $414K |
| 2023 | $690K | $1M | $821K | $139K | — | $937K |
| 2022 | $836K | $429K | $281K | $121K | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $459K | $388K | $89K | $3,378 | $276K | $789K |
| 2020 | $549K | $283K | — | $18K | $100K | $687K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $241K from 12 charities:
- Pollock Family Foundation/Fondation de la famille pollock$100K
- Canadahelps Canadon$35K
- Canadahelps Canadon$35K
- Pollock Family Foundation/Fondation de la famille pollock$31K
- The Yellow Bus Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$13K
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$3,500
- The Birks Family Foundation$2,500
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$1,800
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,200
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- Toronto District School Board$950
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Comisarow (president); Jeffrey Freeborough (director); Sophia Khimji (director); Katherine Pollock (director); James Rickert (director); Mohit Talwar (director); Melanie Johnston (director); Sean Robitaille (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Daytrippers Children's Charity’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 884896929RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.