Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS)
Publicly funded institution · Pickering, Ontario · BN 750618746RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2023-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($17,586) as filed with the CRA.
Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS) is a charitable organization based in Pickering, 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 December 31, 2023, it reported $57K in revenue and $18K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $61K.
Compared with 182 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 10% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The organization has opened its first transitional farmhouse and property that is operated with an agricultural lens. The house is occupied by 7 formerly unhoused individuals.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2023–2023
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $57K | $18K | $4,290 | — | — | $44K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $61K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Darlene Walker (director president); Margaret Eskins (director treasurer); John Paul de Laplante (director secretary).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Dedicated Advocacy Resource Support (DARS)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 750618746RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.